Brittany

“Pride was my wilderness, and the demon that led me there was fear. I was alone, and never free, for I carried my chains within me, and they spread out from me and shackled all I touched.”
― Margaret Laurence, The Stone Angel

“In strange dreams we see ourselves most vividly.”
― Stephen R. Donaldson, Strange Dreams

“My head was awhirl with thoughts I really had no need of, and for the first time I found no pleasure at all in thinking about myself. I had sunk into a state of deep gloom, which has also come over me at times later in my life when other people are achieving more than I myself.”
― Tove Jansson, Moominpappa's Memoirs

“No doubt it was the truth, or so distorted in her mind that, to her, it became so.”
― Daphne du Maurier, My Cousin Rachel