Tracee Alar

“I love this man sitting before me now, because I do not possess him and he does not possess me. We are free in our mutual surrender; I need to repeat this dozens, hundreds, millions of times, until I finally believe my own words.”
― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

“I cannot, I cannot,' cried Marianne; 'leave me, leave me, if I distress you; leave me, hate me, forget me! But do not torture me so. Oh! how easy for those who have no sorrow of their own to talk of extertion!”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“A man who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience in his intrusion on that of others.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“Elinor, for shame!" said Marianne, "money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it. Beyond a competence, it can afford no real satisfaction, as far as mere self is concerned.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility