Lydia

“Tell them they can be great someday, like us. Tell them they belong among us, no matter how we treat them. Tell them they must earn the respect which everyone else receives by default. Tell them there is a standard for acceptance; that standard is simply perfection. Kill those who scoff at those contradictions, and tell the rest that the dead deserved annihilation for their weakness and doubt. Then they'll break themselves trying for what they'll never achieve”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season

“His authority was in fact immense; but he never stood on it. He sat down on it, comfortably, and invited you to sit down with him.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Birthday of the World and Other Stories

“Do one thing every day that scares you.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wind's Twelve Quarters, Volume 1