Vlada

“I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Your personality is not just a matter of what you know about yourself, but what others know about you. You are one person with your mother, and another with your lover, and yet another with your child. Those other people create you--finish you--as much as you create you. When you're gone, the ones you've left behind get to keep the same part of you they always had.”
― Joe Hill, The Fireman

“Perhaps what matters when all is said and done is not who puts us down but who picks us up.”
― Kate DiCamillo, Louisiana's Way Home

“None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat