Truth, reality, knowledge

"Truth is the recognition of reality; Reason, man's only means of knowledge, is his only standard of truth."Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

Slow or clever

When you’re slow you know you need to pay attention, it’s the clever ones who never listen.Jonathan Harker - Dracula (2020)

Pressure is something you feel when you don’t know what the hell you’re doing.Peyton Manning

"When life gives you lemons, squirt someone in the eye."Cathy Guiswite

I get a warm feeling among my books.Anthony Powell

A room without books is like a body without a soul.Marcus Tullius Cicero

Dreams are heavens, where we sin without consequence.Sister Agatha - Dracula (2020)

Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women. Virginia Woolf

A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.Walter Mosley, The Long Fall (Leonid McGill, #1)

I'm not holding your hair while you pray to the porcelain Gods. Ky (Starting from Scratch by Lane Hayes)