❀ Bridget ❀

“There are many Beths in the world, shy and quiet, sitting in corners till needed, and living for others so cheerfully that no one sees the sacrifices till the little cricket on the hearth stops chirping, and the sweet, sunshiny presence vanishes, leaving silence and shadow behind.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“You love me. Real or not real?"
I tell him, "Real.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love...I sought what I might love, in love with loving.”
― Augustine of Hippo