Diana

“…that’s just a teaspoon of trouble in a river of wrong.”
― Suzanne Collins

“Ironsides used to complain about how hard this job was,” he grumbled. “You know the worst part about being in charge, Spin?” “No, sir.” “Perspective. When you’re young, you can assume that everyone older than you has life figured out. Once you get command yourself, you realize we’re all just the same kids wearing older bodies.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Starsight

“[...] You can't count on things happening tomorrow just because they happened in the past. It's faulty logic.'

'Is it?' I say. 'Because it's kind of how people plan out their lives.'

'And that's part of the trouble. Thinking things are inevitable. Not believing change is possible.”
― Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping

“In his brief time as a student, he'd fallen in love with the Boeksplein. Jesper had never been a great reader. He loved stories, but he hated sitting still, and the books assigned to him for school seemed designed to make his mind wander. At the Boeksplein, wherever his eyes strayed, there was something to occupy them; leaded windows with stained-glass borders, iron gates worked in to figures of books and ships, the central fountain with its bearded scholar, and best of all, the gargoyles- bat-winged grotesques in mortarboard caps, and stone dragons falling asleep over books. He liked to think that whoever had built this place had known not all students were suited to quite contemplation.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom