“Most of the time, everyone deserves more than one chance. We all do things we regret now and then. You just have to carry them with you.”
― Little Fires Everywhere
― Little Fires Everywhere
“It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.”
― Sense and Sensibility
― Sense and Sensibility
“It bothers you, doesn’t it?” Mia said suddenly. “I think you can’t imagine. Why anyone would choose a different life from the one you’ve got. Why anyone might want something other than a big house with a big lawn, a fancy car, a job in an office. Why anyone would choose anything different than what you’d choose.”
― Little Fires Everywhere
― Little Fires Everywhere
“...the more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.”
― Sense and Sensibility
― Sense and Sensibility
“Love, she thought, must come suddenly, with great outbursts and lightnings,--a hurricane of the skies, which falls upon life, revolutionises it, roots up the will like a leaf, and sweeps the whole heart into the abyss.”
― Madame Bovary
― Madame Bovary
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