Zoë

“My God doesn’t love me or hate me or watch over me or know me at all, and I feel no love for or loyalty to my God. My God just is.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower

“I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to give pleasure or it is worth nothing.”
― Stephen Greenblatt

“I shook my head. ‘Sarah,’ I said. ‘I do not deserve your help. You do not know everything about me.’
‘I think I know enough.’
‘Please listen, Sarah. I was there when Andrew killed himself.’
‘What?’
‘Yes. And, if I tried harder, I think I could have saved him.’
There was a long silence between us… On the concrete floor of the cell I saw a tear splash, and I looked up into Sarah’s face.
‘You know what the worst thing is?’ she said. ‘If I had tried harder, I suppose I could have saved Andrew too.”
― Chris Cleave, Little Bee

“It is a curious thing, Harry, but perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. Those who, like you, have leadership thrust upon them, and take up the mantle because they must, and find to their own surprise that they wear it well.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows