Mallory Mills

“To feel affection for people even when they make
mistakes is uniquely human. You can do it, if you simply
recognize: that they’re human too, that they act out of
ignorance, against their will, and that you’ll both be dead
before long. And, above all, that they haven’t really hurt you.
They haven’t diminished your ability to choose.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn."

À qui la faute? (1872)”
― Victor Hugo

“The Mole was bewitched, entranced, fascinated. By the side of the river he trotted as one trots, when very small, by the side of a man who holds one spellbound by exciting stories; and when tired at last, he sat on the bank, while the river still chattered on to him, a babbling procession of the best stories in the world, sent from the heart of the earth to be told at last to the insatiable sea.”
― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

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