Evy Ryan

“Isn't it just human, to keep wanting?”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Unsheltered

“...he always retained that decided regard which interested him in everything that befell her, and made her his secret standard of perfection in a woman; - and many a rising beauty would be slighted by him in after days as bearing no comparison with Mrs. Brandon.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“But where shall I find the courage?' asked Frodo. 'That is what I chiefly need.'
'Courage is found in unlikely places,' said Gildor.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“What part soever you have taken upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.”
― Thomas More, Three Early Modern Utopias: Utopia / New Atlantis / The Isle of Pines