Mahdi

“Still, as I tend to repeat, I have some instinct for survival, for self-preservation. And believing you have such an instinct is almost as good as actually having it, because it means you act in the same way.”
― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending

“It’s strange how you give the people you love so much power over you.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“Everything I had worked for, all my years of study, had been to purchase for myself this one privilege: to see and experience more truths than those given to me by my father, and to use those truths to construct my own mind. I had come to believe that the ability to evaluate many ideas, many histories, many points of view, was at the heart of what it means to self-create.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“Un homme est fait de choix et de circonstances. Personne n'a de pouvoir sur les circonstances, mais chacun en a sur ses choix.”
― Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt, La Part de l'autre