Etheldreda Ferrer

“There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.”
― John Donne, No man is an island – A selection from the prose

“A good vocabulary is not acquired by reading books written according to some notion of the vocabulary of one's age group. It comes from reading books above one.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien

“Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.”
― Frank Herbert