Oliver

“Wild birds die in cages.”
― Katherine Arden, The Bear and the Nightingale

“Because I know (this may be blasphemy, but it is true), the only holiday for me is to be with her, to have her near me, shoulder to shoulder. And without her, tomorrow's sun will be nothing but a small circle cut of tin, and the sky, tin painted blue, and I myself...”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin

“It was quite evident that all the misery of the people or, at least by far the greater part of it, was caused by the fact that the land which should feed them was not in their hands, but in the hands of those who, profiting by their rights to the land, live by the work of these people.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Resurrection

“Every man and every living creature has a sacred right to the gladness of springtime.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Resurrection