Ryan

“Later I would understand that modern industrial communities are obsessed with the importance of ‘going somewhere’ and ‘doing something with your life’. The implication is an idea I have come to hate, that staying local and doing physical work doesn’t count for much.”
― James Rebanks, The Shepherd's Life: Modern Dispatches from an Ancient Landscape

“Book-burners try to destroy ideas that differ from their own. Reading does the opposite. It encourages doubt... reading releases you from the limits of yourself.”
― John Carey

“There are lots of people who rewrite their past and, what’s more, believe it themselves. Now that is odd.”
― Jennifer Johnston, Two Moons: A poignant, witty Irish novel of mothers, daughters - and betrayal

“Fearlessness in those without power is maddening to those who have it.”
― Tobias Wolff, This Boy's Life