Miranda

“did you not call this a glorious expedition? and wherefore was it glorious? not because the way was smooth and placid as a southern sea, but because it was full of dangers and terror, because at every new incident your fortitude was to be called forth and your courage exhibited, because danger and death surrounded it, and these you were brave to overcome. for this was it a glorious , for this was it an honorable undertaking”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it.”
― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

“Only the difference between truth and lies, courage and cowardice.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“It's silly not to hope. It's a sin he thought.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea