Aliyah

“Always the eyes watching you and the voice enveloping you. Asleep or awake, working or eating, indoors or out of doors, in the bath or in bed----no escape. Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimeters inside your skull.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“But in life we don't usually get to choose the time of our defining moments. We just have to stand and face them when they come, no matter when they come, no matter what sort of state we're in.”
― Darren Shan, Cirque Du Freak: Sons of Destiny, Vol. 12

“True terror isn’t being scared; it’s not having a choice on the matter.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“...that demanding of another that he earns your respect is, in of itself, an act of arrogance, a way of self-elevation, implying by its very nature that your respect is worth earning.”
― R.A. Salvatore, The Halfling's Gem