Jana

“I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men."

"Perhaps I shall. Yes, yes, if you please, no reference to examples in books. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

“The will to be polite, to maintain civility and normalcy, is fearfully strong. I wonder sometimes how much evil is permitted to run unchecked simply because it would be rude to interrupt it.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Ten Thousand Doors of January

“I needed not to be dead when I agreed.”
“You needed not to be alone.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“SCORPIUS: The world changes and we change with it. I am better off in this world. But the world is not better. And I don't want that.”
― Jack Thorne, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One and Two