Laura Stevens

“Nothing forces us to know
What we do not want to know
Except pain”
― Aeschylus, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

“One must lie under certain circumstances and at all times when one can't do anything about them.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“We've got facts," they say. But facts aren't everything; at least half the battle consists in how one makes use of them!”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde