Ilana

“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“The reason why it is easy to kill another person must be that one's imagination is too sluggish to conceive what his life means to him - the infinite possibilities of a succession of days which are furled in him, & have already been spent.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume One: 1915-1919

“The direction of a big act will warp history, but probably all acts do the same in their degree, down to a stone stepped over in the path or the breath caught at sight of a pretty girl or a fingernail nicked in the garden soil.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Miserables