Robyn

“Ah," I can hear you say, "so it was all a build-up to bore us with his buggy jiving. He only wanted us to listen to him rave!" But only partially true: Being invisible and without substance, a disembodied voice, as it were, what else could I do? What else but try to tell you what was really happening when your eyes were looking through? And it is this which frightens me:
Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

“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

“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