„She was too alert, too alive not to have the kind of mind that probed and reached and got her into trouble now and then.“

— Octavia E. Butler
„There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths.“
— Carl Sagan
„In adolescence she thought it was too early to choose, now in youth she was convinced it was too late to change.“
— Paulo Coelho
„At night too, she puzzled the mystery of her desperate need of kindness. As other girls prayed for handsomeness in a lover, or for wealth, or for power, or for poetry, she had prayed fervently: let him be kind.“
— Anaïs Nin
„She was of course only too good for him; but as nobody minds having what is too good for them, he was very steadily earnest in the pursuit of the blessing…“
— Jane Austen