HelRène

“You see, that's one of the rubbish things about being older: you're still there taking up space, needing stuff, wanting attention, but you gradually become invisible and unimportant. It's very annoying.”
― Maddie Please, Sisters Behaving Badly

“What is religion?"
"It's a doctrine that prescribes a way of living built on rituals created to give a sense of security.
Some has rituals that included when and what to eat, what clothes to wear, how often to pray, who to socialize with, and who to marry. Often the priests would tell horrible stories about awful things that would happen if people broke these traditions."
"Was it true?"
"No, but it was a way for the priests to gain control, and unfortunately it divided people …”
― Elin Peer, The Seducer

“Nina a appris qu'on ne construit rien avec quelqu'un, ni pour quelqu'un. Qu'une existence se fonde seul et que si par miracle on rencontre une âme un peu sœur, c'est cadeau.”
― Valérie Perrin, Trois

“People," Geralt turned his head, "like to invent monsters and monstrosities. Then they seem less monstrous themselves. When they get blind-drunk, cheat, steal, beat their wives, starve an old woman, when they kill a trapped fox with an axe or riddle the last existing unicorn with arrows, they like to think that the Bane entering cottages at daybreak is more monstrous than they are. They feel better then. They find it easier to live.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, The Last Wish