Lydia

“You call yourself a free spirit, a "wild thing," and you're terrified somebody's gonna stick you in a cage. Well baby, you're already in that cage. You built it yourself. And it's not bounded in the west by Tulip, Texas, or in the east by Somali-land. It's wherever you go. Because no matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself.”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories

“Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself.
She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.”
― Oscar Wilde

“You will go on and meet someone else and I'll just be a chapter in your tale, but for me, you were, you are and you always will be, the whole story.”
― Marian Keyes, The Other Side of the Story

“She was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad. And that’s important—you know ”
― Marilyn Monroe