Eilidh Harris

“Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power. ”
― James Allen, As a Man Thinketh

“Frankly, I was horrified by life, at what a man had to do simply in order to eat, sleep, and keep himself clothed. So I stayed in bed and drank. When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn’t have you by the throat.”
― Charles Bukowski

“He has let her in not because he genuinely loved her, but only because she played so well into his preconceived fantasies.”
― Shulamith Firestone, The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution

“but that what was for him the greatest and most cruel injustice appeared to others a quite ordinary occurrence.”
― Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories