Lily Bliss

“Life is a mess and a miracle. So pick up a broom and dance.”
― Jennifer Trafton, The Rise and Fall of Mount Majestic

“I cannot make speeches, Emma:”—he soon resumed, and in a tone of such sincere, decided, intelligible tenderness as was tolerably convincing. “If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me. I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“Sail by the stars, not the flotsam.”
― Andrew Peterson, Adorning the Dark: Thoughts on Community, Calling, and the Mystery of Making

“Does Miss Smith have a first name? No, I blurt. My parents couldn't afford one- commoners, you understand.”
― Elisabeth Aimee Brown, What Comes of Attending the Commoners Ball