Gabrielle

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them.... I destroy them.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde