Amanda

“Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story.”
― Daphne du Maurier

“I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself”
― Simone de Beauvoir

“Vin shook her head. “Not right now. You said their prayer—is this the religion you believe in, then?” “I believe in them all.” Vin frowned. “None of them contradict each other?” Sazed smiled. “Oh, often and frequently they do. But, I respect the truths behind them all—and I believe in the need for each one to be remembered.” “Then, how did you decide which religion’s prayer to use?” Vin asked. “It just seemed…appropriate,” Sazed said quietly, regarding the scene of shadowed death.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment