Octavian

“All you can do is take each day as it comes. Try and do the best you can with what you're given. You won't always do the right thing, but you can try. And you can try to do the right thing next time. That, and stay alive.”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Heroes

“How was she to tie herself to a man without permitting him to imprison her? And was there some means of acquiring things without those things possessing her?”
― Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart

“It's nothing serious," he said. "It's just an obsession.”
― Mary Gaitskill, Bad Behavior

“So much of who we are is what we remember and retell,”
― Arkady Martine, A Memory Called Empire