Laurwegs

“Am I hideous, Jane?” “Very, sir: you always were, you know.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“That's just what translation is, I think. That's all speaking is. Listening to the other and trying to see past your own biases to glimpse what they're trying to say. Showing yourself to the world, and hoping someone else understands.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

“Someone should tell you that you’re beautiful every time the sun comes up. Someone should tell you you’re beautiful on Wednesdays. And at teatime. Someone should tell you you’re beautiful on Christmas Day and Christmas Eve and the evening before Christmas Eve, and on Easter. He should tell you on Guy Fawkes Night and on New Year’s, and on the eighth of August, just because.”
― Dana Schwartz, Anatomy: A Love Story

“I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice