Laura

“When you're a kid everything's new, dawn. It's just when you get used to evreything that it's day. Like the way you dig sunsets, Pony. That's gold. Keep that way, it's a good way to be.I want you to tell Dally to look at one. He'll probably think you're crazy, but ask for me. I don't think he's ever really seen a sunset. And don't be so bugged over being a greaser. You still have a lot of time to make yourself be what you want. There's still lots of good in the world. Tell Dally. I don't think he knows.”
― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

“All things therefore seemed to point to this; that I was slowly losing hold of my original and better self, and becoming slowly incorporated with my second and worse.
Between these two, I now felt I had to choose. My two natures had memory in common, but all other faculties were most unequally shared between them. Jekyll (who was composite) now with the most sensitive apprehensions, now with a greedy gusto, projected and shared in the pleasures and adventures of Hyde; but Hyde was indifferent to Jekyll, or but remembered him as the mountain bandit remembers the cavern in which he conceals himself from pursuit. Jekyll had more than a father's interest; Hyde had more than a son's indifference.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde [+ The Body Snatcher, The Bottle Imp, Markheim and Weir of Hermiston]

“Without the person of outspoken opinion, however, without the critic, without the visionary, with the nonconformist, any society of whatever degree of perfection must fall into decay.”
― Ben Shahn, The Shape of Content

“To be loved by someone is a truly wonderful thing. Ayano told me
that once. The happiness of having been born a girl.
So happy...
Misaki felt this with her whole heart.
To love someone, and have them tell you they love you, to be loved
a whole lot...
I am truly glad to have been born a girl.”
― Keisuke Uyama, Love Like the Falling Petals