Charlotte

“They had taken to the movement unlike anything he had ever seen, and he thought that should this venture of the Jews prove successful, the new state would be filled with dancers and musicians, but especially dancers, for dancing like nothing else says: I am still alive.”
― Mark Helprin, Refiner's Fire: A Sweeping Literary Epic – An Immigrant's Search for Home and Identity

“And if you couldn't be loved, the next best thing was to be let alone.”
― L.M. Montgomery

“If you can sit in silence with a person for half an hour and yet be entirely comfortable, you and that person can be friends. If you cannot, friends you'll never be and you need not waste time in trying.”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Blue Castle

“There is still a real life to be lived, there are still real things to be done.”
― Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This