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Uncle Vanya says I have the blood of a mermaid in my veins, "Give rein to your nature for once in your life!" - Uncle Vanya, Anton Chekhov

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. - The Fellowship of the Ring; JRR Tolkein

Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change. - Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus; Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

So ran the speech. Burdened and sick at heart, he feigned hope in his look, and inwardly contained his anguish. - The Aeneid; Virgil

Because I was happy upon the heath, and smil'd among the winter's snow, they clothed me in the clothes of death, and taught me to sing the notes of woe. - William Blake; The Chimney Sweeper

Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. -  Vicktor Emil Frankl

Perhaps it is right that I should. Oh, to be free as a bird, to fly away from all your sleepy faces and your talk and forget that you have existed at all! But I am a coward, I am afraid; - Uncle Vanya; Anton Chekhov

You may be as different as the sun and the moon, but the same blood flows through both your hearts. You need her, as she needs you...- George R.R. Martin; A Game of Thrones