Ana

“I stay, kneeling on the hearthstone, till the clock on the table strikes four with its
silvery little chime and I realise that I have been in a trance of prayer for hours. I have prayed and I believe that I have been heard. I have spoken and I believe I have been answered. No priest took my confession or gave me absolution, no church took my fee, no pilgrim badges or miracle cures or
little pieces of trumpery helped me to come into the presence of God. I simply asked for His great mercy and I received it, as He promised in the Bible that it should be granted.”
― Philippa Gregory, The Taming of the Queen

“A frigid woman is never jealous, you simply haven't caught up yet on ordinary human emotions.”
― Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

“Human purpose isn't what you say it is or what I say it is. It's what your biology says it is--what your genes say it is.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Adulthood Rites

“A cancer growing in someone's body will go on growing in spite of denial. And a complex combination of genes that work together to make you intelligent as well as hierarchical will still handicap you whether you acknowledge it or not.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Dawn