Sarah

“I believe most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own / Three Guineas

“Scholars do one of two things when they discover information that doesn't fit what they already know. Either they sweep it aside so it doesn't bring their cherished theories into question or they focus on it with laserlike intensity and try to get to the bottom of the mystery.”
― Deborah Harkness, A Discovery of Witches

“I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi