Matylda

“I can hear you clearly but it is also as if you are far away. It is unbearable to look back from the future we did not know we had been traveling toward. That is not right. It is unbearable because we did know. It was plain as our own palms.”
― Anne de Marcken, It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

“[...] she proved beyond a doubt that I was the most wicked and abandoned child ever reared under a roof. I half believed her; for I felt indeed only bad feelings surging in my breast.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Every day that the wealth gap yawned wider, I began to realize that evil was not found in the demons or spirits we could ward away with fragrant flowers, but in the men who thought that everything on earth could be bought.”
― Kylie Lee Baker , The Scarlet Alchemist

“I pretended everything would be okay because it seemed impossible to always be saying goodbye.”
― Anne de Marcken, It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over