Rafa

“Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“If a book is well written, I always find it too short.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

“When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”
― C.S. Lewis, On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature