Lenya

“She had believed that love was something she could bestow upon whomever she liked, and that her main responsibility was to choose cleverly.”
― Ken Follett, Winter of the World

“What was reckless, I decided, was the way people were writing off huge swaths of the world as unsafe, unstable, unfriendly, when all they needed to do was go and see for themselves”
― Amanda Lindhout, A House in the Sky

“Painting is metaphor for control. Every choice is mine. The canvas, the colour. As a child I had neither a sense of the world nor my place in it but art taught me that one’s vision can be achieved with sheer force of will. The same is true of life, provided one refuses to let anything stand in one’s way.”
― Niklaus Mikaelson

“If you don’t take an interest, then what happens is your fault.”
― Ken Follett, Winter of the World