Machteld

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“The world is not a wish-granting factory.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Hardly anyone still reads nowadays. People make use of the writer only in order to work off their own excess energy on him in a perverse manner, in the form of agreement or disagreement.”
― Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities

“I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice