Alice

“Dear God," she prayed, "let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. Let me be cold; let me be warm. Let me be hungry...have too much to eat. Let me be ragged or well dressed. Let me be sincere - be deceitful. Let me be truthful; let me be a liar. Let me be honorable and let me sin. Only let me be something every blessed minute. And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
― Rudyard Kipling

“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
― Franz Kafka

“A single metaphor can give birth to love.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being