“A life cut tragically short, but with more colour perhaps than one may find in her work.”

“Natasha and I said more than once that one may arrive at such a physical condition that it would be better to cut short one's own life or, more correctly, the too slow process of dying … But whatever may be the circumstances of my death I shall die with unshaken faith in the communist future. This faith in man and in his future gives me even now such power of resistance as cannot be given by any religion.”

Leon Trotsky (1879–1940) Marxist revolutionary from Russia

“If there was one truth Evie had learned in her short life, it was that forgiveness was easier to seek than permission. She didn’t plan to ask for either one.”

Libba Bray book The Diviners

“Light finds her treasure of colours
through the antagonism of clouds.”

Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali polymath

“Perhaps, but you would not exist without a woman, would you? However little use you may find us, we are cleverer and more determined and more patient than men. Men may be stronger, but it is women who endure.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

“One day with life and heart
Is more than time enough to find a world.”

James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat

“Our life is no Dream, but it may and will perhaps become one.”

Novalis (1772–1801) German poet and writer

“Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything.”

Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer

“It is life that educates, and perhaps love more than anything else in life.”

Will Durant (1885–1981) American historian, philosopher and writer

“I for one find a casual destruction of a man's life even more repugnant than a determined one.”

Lois McMaster Bujold (1949) Science Fiction and fantasy author from the USA