Isabele

“To speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“O pior mal de um caráter excessivamente fraco e indeciso é que não se pode confiar nele! Nunca se pode estar certo se uma boa impressão será durável. Todos podem dissipá-la. Que sejam felizes os firmes de espírito.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

“That to arrive at such resignation as GOD requires, we should watch attentively over all the passions which mingle as well in spiritual things as in those of a grosser nature; that GOD would give light concerning those passions to those who truly desire to serve Him.”
― Brother Lawrence, The Practice of the Presence of God

“He said gently: “I am not, I hope, such a coxcomb as to distress you by repeated solicitations, Miss Tallant, but you may believe that I am still of the same mind as I was when I made you an offer. If your sentiments should undergo a change, one word-one look!—would be sufficient to apprise me of it.”
― Georgette Heyer, Arabella