Rachel

“Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Like war refugees, prisoners have lost everything: home, possessions, friends, and often family. For a prisoner, education has a special value as the one thing that no one can take from him.”
― Laura Bates, Shakespeare Saved My Life: Ten Years in Solitary with the Bard

“Instead of always worrying about being efficient, I wanted to spend time on exploration, experimentation, digression, and failed attempts that didn’t always look productive.”
― Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project

“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
― Matthew Quick, Love May Fail