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“We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

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

“The stars incline us, they do not bind us.”
― Chloe Gong, These Violent Delights

“My desire to keep him there had, at some point, transcended the alignment of an actor's motivation and his character's. I desperately wanted him to stay, seized by the nonsensical idea that if he left, I would lose him, irretrievably.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains