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Don't order any of the faerie food," said Jace, looking at her over the top of his menu. "It tends to make humans a little crazy. One minute you're munching a faerie plum, the next minute you're running naked down Madison Avenue with antlers on your head. Not," he added hastily, "that this has ever happened to me. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#city-of-bones #jace #mortal-instruments #food

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#humanity #mistakes #freedom

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you. ↗

— A. A. Milne

#day #hundred #i #live #minus

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#women #writing #freedom

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#empowerment #flaws #freedom #gender #identity

Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can! ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#literature #philosophy #freedom

Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls. ↗

— Anaïs Nin

#escape #freedom #intoxication #reality #freedom

I'm single because I was born that way. ↗

— Mae West

#choice #dignity #empowerment #freedom #independence

When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross. ↗

— Sinclair Lewis

#freedom #politics #religion #freedom

I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#law #morality #rules #freedom