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“She had everything she wanted, but she still felt, at times, that there were other things she might want if she knew about them.”
― Edith Wharton, The Custom of the Country

“There is no support so strong as the strength that enables one to stand alone.”
― Ellen Glasgow

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“Her life, she knew, was becoming simplified into an unbreakable chain of habits, a series of orderly actions at regular hours. Vaguely, she thought of herself as a happy woman; yet she was aware that this monotony of contentment had no relation to what she had called happiness in her youth. It was better perhaps; it was certainly as good; but it measured all the difference between youth and maturity.”
― Ellen Glasgow, Barren Ground