Nastia

“I was born to be a spinster, and, by God, I'm going to spin.”
― Winifred Holtby

“In this pause, I suddenly saw something very clearly.

Whatever it was I wanted from my mother was simply not there to be had. It was not her fault.

And it was therefore not my fault that I was unable to elicit it.”
― Alison Bechdel, Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama

“Let us have the luxury of silence.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“And suddenly, as he noted the fine shades of manner by which she harmonized herself with her surroundings, it flashed on him that, to need such adroit handling, the situation must indeed be desperate.”
― Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth