This was the rest of my life. And I was going to try my best, just like my mom had raised me to do, like she would have expected from me.


“I have the highest respect for your nerves, they are my old friends.”
― Pride and Prejudice
― Pride and Prejudice

“I kissed him, trying to bring him back. I kissed him and let my lips rest against his so that our breath mingled and the tears from my eyes became salt on his skin, and I told myself that, somewhere, tiny particles of him would become tiny particles of me, ingested, swallowed, alive, perpetual. I wanted to press every bit of me against him. I wanted to will something into him. I wanted to give him every bit of life I felt and force him to live.”
― Me Before You
― Me Before You

“I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!”
― Wuthering Heights
― Wuthering Heights

“Know that you hold my heart, my hopes, in your hands.”
― The Last Letter from Your Lover
― The Last Letter from Your Lover

“Exertion should always be in proportion to what is required.”
― Pride and Prejudice / Northanger Abbey / Persuasion
― Pride and Prejudice / Northanger Abbey / Persuasion
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