Claire

“Be true! Be true! Be true! Show freely to the world, if not your worst, yet some trait whereby the worst may be inferred.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“The voice of the sea speaks to the soul.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening

“life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“It is to the credit of human nature, that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates. Hatred, by a gradual and quiet process, will even be transformed to love, unless the change be impeded by a continually new irritation of the original feeling of hostility.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter