Mandi

“Can't you treat yourself with a bit more consideration?'
'Why should I?' Mordion said, hugging the duvet round himself.
'Because you're a person, of course!' Ann snapped at him. 'One person ought to treat another person properly even if the person's himself!”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Hexwood

“It is not all books that are as dull as their readers. There are probably words addressed to our condition exactly, which, if we could really hear and understand, would be more salutary than the morning or the spring to our lives, and possibly put a new aspect on the face of things for us. How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book. The book exists for us perchance which will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered. These same questions that disturb and puzzle and confound us have in their turn occurred to all the wise men; not one has been omitted; and each has answered them, according to his ability, by his words and his life.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

“I prefer to be foolish when I feel like it, and be accountable to nobody.”
― Willa Cather, My Ántonia

“I've often noticed" Fiona said, "that when people say, 'This can't happen in this day and age', they say it because it is happening.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Fire and Hemlock