Ella

“Faith has become a mere compound of credulity and prejudices, aye prejudices too which degrade man from rational being to beast. Which completely stifle the power of judgement between true and false. Which seem in fact carefully fostered for the purpose of extinguishing the last spark of reason.”
― Thomas Cook, Baruch Spinoza

“In the moonless night, she traced the scar on her palm, the oath to Nehemia. She would retrieve the first wyrdkey from Arobynn and track down the others, and then find a way to put the Wyrdkeys back in their Gate. She would free magic and destroy the king and save her people. No matter the odds, no matter how long it took, no matter how far she had to go.
She lifted her face to the stars. She was Aelin Ashryver Galathynius, heir of two mighty bloodlines, protector of a once-glorious people, and Queen of Terrasen
She was Aelin Ashryver Galathynius- and she would not be afraid.”
― sarah j mass

“And once everyone agrees something is one way, all the other ways it could have been disappear.”
― Heidi Heilig, The Girl from Everywhere

“[...] we must recognize that in our own experience of emptiness, that even though one feels "empty", one must have a self in order to feel this emptiness; a loss cannot be felt unless what is missed is really a lost part of the self. Unwholeness is a feeling which belongs only to a being born whole and somehow denied access to this whole self. A being born "unwhole" would be whole in that partiality, happy with that cavernous state, and feel no emptiness, miss nothing, feel at home in a vacuum of identity. It is precisely because we have selves that we mourn.”
― Susan Griffin, Pornography and Silence: Culture's Revenge Against Nature