Ezra

“If I could be anything but what I am, I would be tomorrow. If I could be what my father wants me to be, then maybe I could stay for that, too. If I could be what you want me to be, I’d want to stay. But I am what I am, and all I want is freedom.”
― Melina Marchetta, Looking for Alibrandi

“While we may come from different places and speak in different tongues, our hearts beat as one.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“There is a beast in my gut, I can hear it scraping away at the inside of my ribs.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

“I think I could stand anything, any suffering, only to be able to say and to repeat to myself every moment, 'I exist.' In thousands of agonies -- I exist. I'm tormented on the rack -- but I exist! Though I sit alone in a pillar -- I exist! I see the sun, and if I don't see the sun, I know it's there. And there's a whole life in that, in knowing that the sun is there.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov