Francisca

“Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you!”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“There is no past or future. Using tenses to divide time is like making chalk marks on water.”
― Janet Frame

“may you kiss
the wind then turn from it
certain that it will
love your back”
― Lucille Clifton

“Gossip is never fatal until it is denied.”
― Booth Tarkington