Sofie

“Room 101" said the officer.
The man's face, already very pale, turned a color Winston would not have believed possible. It was definitely, unmistakably, a shade of green.
"Do anything to me!" he yelled. "You've been starving me for weeks. Finish it off and let me die. Shoot me. Hang me. Sentence me to twenty-five years. Is there somebody else you want me to give away? Just say who it is and I'll tell you anything you want. I don't care who it is or what you do to them. I've got a wife and three children. The biggest of them isn't six years old. You can take the whole lot of them and cut their throats in front of my eyes, and I'll stand by and watch it. But not room 101!"
"Room 101" said the officer.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Travel far enough, you meet yourself.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“It is said that all of us are by nature wild beasts and that out duty has human-beings is to become like trainers who keep their animals in check, and even teach them to perform tasks alien to their bestiality?”
― Nakajima Ton

“What would you do if you weren't afraid?”
― Sheryl Sandberg, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead