Rachael

“No one is useless in this world,' retorted the Secretary, 'who lightens the burden of it for any one else.”
― Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend

“Ultimate wisdom, I have come to perceive, lies in the perception that the solemnity and the grandeur of the universe rise through the slow process of unification in which the diversities of existence are utilized, and nothing, nothing is lost”
― John Gardner, Grendel

“Freedom is not just an absence of evil but a presence of good.”
― Timothy Snyder, On Freedom

“Strength? What strength! This is a weak, flopping, sloshy, repulsive collection of nerves and ganglia. Don't even mention the word 'strength.”
― Anne Rice, The Tale of the Body Thief