Jaclyn

“for he that strikes the first blow, if he strikes it hard enough, may need to strike no more.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

“The tears rose slowly in Katharine's eyes and stood there, brimming but contained—the tears of some profound emotion, happiness, grief, renunciation; an emotion so complex in its nature that to express it was impossible, and Cassandra, bending her head and receiving the tears upon her cheek, accepted them in silence as the consecration of her love.”
― Virginia Woolf, Night and Day

“and when nobody wakes you up in the morning, and when nobody waits for you at night, and when you can do whatever you want. what do you call it, freedom or loneliness?”
― Milan Kundera

“She was, on the contrary, inclined to be silent; she shrank from expressing herself even in talk, let alone in writing.”
― Virginia Woolf, Night and Day