Robyn

“But 'Thou mayest!'! Why, that makes a man great, that gives him stature with the gods, for in his weakness and his filth and his murder of his brother he has still the great choice. He can choose his course and fight it through and win”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“I had to call the past to life, and illuminate every corner of the five continents, descend to the centre of the earth and make the circuit of the moon and stars”
― Simone de Beauvoir, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

“Unconditional love is the freedom to follow your heart and still have a home.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, After I Do

“It was rather frightening: she came and went unconcernedly in my life, and all my happiness, my very existence, lay in her hands.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, My Life Volume 1 Memoirs Of A Dutiful Daughter