Beatriz Lopes

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

“It's been many years since I had such an exemplary vegetable.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Sometimes he caught himself listening to the sound of his own voice. He thought that in her eyes he would ascent to an angelical stature; and, as he attached the fervent nature of his companion more and more closely to him, he heard the strange impersonal voice which he recognised as his own, insisting on the soul's incurable lonliness. We cannot give ourselves, it said: we are our own.”
― James Joyce, Dubliners