Nicole

“Adversity is like a strong wind. I don't mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. It also tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are, and not merely as we might like to be.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“(If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self—himself—he cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it.)”
― Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales

“Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!”
― Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass

“小孩子懂什麼。挫折之下，小孩從說實話的孩子進化為可以選擇說實話的孩子，在話語的民主中，小孩才長成大人。”
― 林奕含, 房思琪的初戀樂園