Natalie Chen

“He yearned to step out of his life the way one steps out of a house into the street.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“Inside it he inscribed a few lines of poetry, portraying us as the gypsy and the fool, one creating silence; one listening closely to the silence. In the clanging twirl of our lives, these roles would reverse many times”
― Patti Smith, Just Kids

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“What overwhelmed him in that instant was admiration for the gesture with which she had thrown her clothes aside. With its grace and carelessness it seemed to annihilate a whole culture, a whole system of thought, as thought the Big Brother and the Party and the Thought Police could all be swept into nothingness by a single splendid movement of the arm. That too was a gesture belonging to an ancient time. Winston woke up with the word 'Shakespeare' on his lips.”
― George Orwell, 1984