Letters
1. “I do not think I shall ever wish for a letter again!” (Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey)
Liberty
2. “Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.” (T.S. Eliot, The Family Reunion)
Lies
3. “There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies…” (Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness)
Are you enjoying your life?
Life
4. “Life can be so unreal.” (Lee Kok Liang, The Mutes in the Sun)
5. “What you do blurs over what you did before.” (John Fowles, The Collector)
6. “We all want things we can’t have.” (John Fowles, The Collector)
7. “The only thing that really matters is feeling and living what you believe – so long as it’s something more than belief in your own comfort.” (John Fowles, The Collector)
8. “Life, what is it but a dream?” (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass)
9. “Just remember that you have to look out for yourself. No one else will.” (Anita Nair, Ladies Coupe)
10. “It is just that all through life we protect ourselves in so many ways from so many hurtful truths just by managing to be a little blind here, a bit shortsighted there, and by squinting against the incoming light all the time. That is what the prudent call life.” (Ayi Kwei Armah, The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born)
