Leonore

“Always learn poems by heart. They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like fluoride in the water, they'll make your soul impervious to the world's soft decay.”
― Janet Fitch, White Oleander

“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
― E.L. Doctorow

“Don't let the bastards grind you down.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984