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“Will the freshness, unconcern, need for love and strength of faith you posses as a child ever return? What time could have been better than when the two finest virtues - innocent gaiety and a limitless need for love - were life's only impulses?
Where are those ardent prayers? Where is the best gift - those pure tears of tenderness? A comforting angel would fly down to dry those tears with a smile and waft sweet reveries into the uncorrupted imagination of childhood.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Childhood, Boyhood, Youth

“The leprosy of unreality disfigured every human creature in attendance.”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

“There was always something wrong with how I was invented and meant to fit in with the world...Whether this was because I constantly misread my part or because of some deep flaw in my being I could not tell for most of my early life".”
― Edward W. Said, Out of Place

“I am about life. I’m gonna live as hard as i can and as full as i can until i die. And i’m not letting these parasites, these oppressors, these greedy racist swine make me kill my children in my mind, before they are even born.”
― Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography