Alice

“When I left my village, it was like I took a step with my right foot and, by the time my left foot came to join it, four years had passed.”
― Xiaolu Guo, Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth

“To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God. It is what we need more than anything. It liberates us from pretense, humbles us out of our self-righteousness, and fortifies us for any difficulty life can throw at us.”
― Timothy Keller, The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God

“I cannot make speeches, Emma...If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me. I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“Don’t worry, she deserved it anyway. She’s no good, that girl. Much too individualistic.”
― Xiaolu Guo, Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth