Marina

“It was a small thing, but it was a thing, and things have a way of either dying or growing, and it wasn’t dying.”
― Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You

“I dare say it is rather hard to be a rat,” she mused. “Nobody likes you. People jump and run away and scream out: ‘Oh, a horrid rat!’ I shouldn’t like people to scream and jump and say: ‘Oh, a horrid Sara!’ the moment they saw me, and set traps for me, and pretend they were dinner. It’s so different to be a sparrow. But nobody asked this rat if he wanted to be a rat when he was made. Nobody said: ‘Wouldn’t you rather be a sparrow?”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess

“There's never an easy route to the things that matter.”
― Charles de Lint, The Onion Girl

“When you sit face to face with someone who is pleasant, respectful, and polite, you have hard time reminding yourself that nothing he says is true/sincere.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being