mecharose

“If you’re a girl in a fantasy novel, be sure to announce loudly how you just want to have adventures and sword fights, and declare your hatred for needlepoint often. It is a simple fact that any female character in a patriarchy-based fantasy novel who actually enjoys needlepoint will not be a heroine. It’s almost like we demean women who enjoy activities typically coded as feminine. Weird.”
― Carrie Ann DiRisio, Brooding YA Hero: Becoming a Main Character (Almost) as Awesome as Me

“i was so woried about wat i woud become in the future that i didnt realize i can be anything i want to be right now”
― Jomny Sun, Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too

“Ah, music," he said, wiping his eyes. "A magic beyond all we do here!”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools.”
― Thucydides