matildar

“When we were acquaintances, you let me be myself, but now you're always protecting me. I won't be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult. Can't I be trusted to face the truth but I must get it second-hand through you? A woman's place...Cecil you're that, for you may understand beautiful things, but you don't know how to use them; and you wrap yourself up in art and books and music, and would try to wrap me up. I won't be stifled, not by the most glorious music, for people are more glorious, and you hide them from me. That's why I break off my engagement.”
― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

“In the driest whitest stretch of pain’s infinite desert, I lost my sanity and found this rose.”
― Rumi

“To see a landscape as it is when I am not there... When I am in any place, I disturb the silence of heaven and earth by my breathing and the beating of my heart.”
― Simone Weil, Gravity And Grace

“life still called to her with many insistent voices.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne: The Green Gables Complete Collection