Phoebe

“She was very young, he thought, she still expected something from life, she did not understand that to push an inconvenient person off a cliff solves nothing.

'Actually it would have made no difference,' he said.

'Then why are you sorry you didn't do it?'

'Only because I prefer a positive to a negative. In this game that we're playing, we can't win. Some kinds of failure are better than other kinds, that's all.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“People are supposed to care. It's good that people mean something to you, that you miss people when they're gone.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“The Utopians fail to understand why anyone should be so fascinated by the dull gleam of a tiny bit of stone, when he has all the stars in the sky to look at.”
― Thomas More, Utopia

“Over the years, I've gradually realized that confidence must come from within, not from others' opinions, and that it's impossible to feel satisfied with yourself if you're constantly worrying about what other people think.”
― Aly Raisman, Fierce: How Competing for Myself Changed Everything