Gaby Hands

“Everything depends on what circumstances and what environment man lives in. Environment is everything, and man himself is nothing.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“Well, he is not a ghost; yet every nerve I have is unstrung: for a moment I am beyond my own mastery. What does that mean? I did not think I should tremble in this way when I saw him – or lose my voice or the power of motion in his presence. I will go back as soon as I can stir: I need not make an absolute fool of myself. I know another way to the house. It does not signify if I knew twenty ways; for he has seen me.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“I could never rest in communication with strong, discreet, and refined minds, weather male or female, till I had passed the out-works of conventional reserve, and crossed the threshold of confidence, and won a place by their heart's very hearth-stone.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“We are all amateurs. We don't have enough time to be anything else.”
― Charlie Chaplin