Kathleen

“But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own

“Dessie's friends were good and loyal but they were human, and humans love to feel good and they hate to feel bad.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“You Americans, always peering under people's beds to look for communism.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun