A forest bird never wants a cage. - Henrik Ibsen

The black, cold, icy water. Down and down, without end — if it would only end.

I'm also like a half-drowned woman on a wreck. No one to suffer with; no one to care for.

I believe that before all else I am a reasonable human being, just as you are — or, at all events, that I must try and become one. I know quite well, Torvald, that most people would think you right, and that views of that kind are to be found in books; but I can no longer content myself with what most people say, or with what is found in books. I must think over things for myself and get to understand them.