Ally

“I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.”
― Henry David Thoreau, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

“Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower;
We will grieve not, rather find
Strength in what remains behind;
In the primal sympathy
Which having been must ever be...”
― William Wordsworth

“It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live us many more lives and as many kind of lives as we wish.”
― S.I. Hayakawa

“We read to know we're not alone.”
― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play