"Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. - Mrs. Whatsit"― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time
"There was beauty in the idea of freedom, but it was an illusion. Every human heart was chained by love."― Cassandra Clare, Lady Midnight
"How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life. Told to others, but—mainly—to ourselves."― Julian Barnes, The ...