Lucy Cowling

“No, I'm asking you to marry me, you little fool.”
― Daphne du Maurier

“To be loved and chosen by a good man is the best and sweetest thing which can happen to a woman.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“Cast away at the very bottom of the table was the Professor, shouting answers to the questions of a very inquisitive, deaf old gentleman on one side, and talking philosophy with a Frenchman on the other. If Amy had been here, she'd have turned her back on him forever because, sad to relate, he had a great appetite, and shoveled in his dinner in a manner which would have horrified 'her ladyship'. I didn't mind, for I like 'to see folks eat with a relish', as Hannah says, and the poor man must have needed a deal of food after teaching idiots all day. As”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“I feel no pressure to stop crying. I feel no need to explain myself. You don't have to make yourself OK for a good mother; a good mother makes herself OK for you. And my mother has always been a good mother, a great mother.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo