Josie

“She often spoke to falling seeds and said, "Ah hope you fall on soft ground," because she had heard seeds saying that to each other as they passed. The familiar people and things had failed her so she hung over the gate and looked up the road towards way off. She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie's first dream was dead, so she became a woman.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

“Neither a borrower, nor a lender be;
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
This above all: to thine own self be true,   85
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Farewell; my blessing season this in thee!”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“They bowed down to him rather, because he was all of these things, and then again he was all of these things because the town bowed down.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

“Necessity breeds solution.”
― Anne McCaffrey, Dragonsinger