Adam

“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
― Rudyard Kipling

“Not to be believed does not at all agree with princesses: for a real princess cannot tell a lie. So all the afternoon she did not speak a word. Only when the nurse spoke to her, she answered her, for a real princess is never rude—even when she does well to be offended.”
― George MacDonald, The Princess and the Goblin

“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“He’d captured a mythical beast in an ocean with no water, in a land with no sun.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Isles of the Emberdark