Maddox S.

“I have to constantly re-identify myself to myself, reactivate my own standards, my own convictions about what I'm doing and why.”
― Nina Simone

“I mean, what do you do, when you find that things are not what you were taught they’re supposed to be? What do you do with the desperation that boils up from your stomach when you know there’s a road out there with your destination at the end of it, but it’s too damned dark to even find the road? You turn and turn and turn around like a dog trying to escape. Shrieks in the cavity of your head that so urgently needs to be filled with facts and challenges.”
― Harlan Ellison, I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream

“An absence of fear, Elisa realizes, can be mistaken for happiness, but it isn’t the same thing. Not even close.”
― Guillermo del Toro, The Shape of Water

“It was never too late to exchange the things you believed defined you for something better.”
― Guillermo del Toro, The Shape of Water