The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

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Howard Roark is an architect whose genius and integrity will not be comprised. He has ideas that work against conventional standards.

howard roark: he is an individualist, an architect who lives life on his own terms.he doesnt bother himself with othher ppl
Peter Keating: He knows he is weak, fallible, manipulative and deceptive but he is too inveterate to look into his conscience. His achievements do not belong to him, nor has he achieved them for himself. He is simply driven by the world.

“The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.”
“There will be days when you'll take a look at your hands and you'll want to take something and smash every bone in them because they'll be taunting you with what they could do.”
Henry Cameron
“Sometimes he was asked to show his sketches...it was like having the clothes torn from his body and the shame was not that his body was exposed but that it was exposed to indifferent eyes.”
“Everything to which you grant your love is yours.”
“He thought what a power there was in words; later, for those who heard them, but first for the one who found them: a healing power, a solution, like the breaking of a barrier.”