Elizabeth

“He could see plainly that she was not herself. That is, he could not see that she was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening

“Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr.

“Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.”
― Mother Teresa

“So I shall just imagine myself for a fortnight or so at one side of the fireplace of a country cottage, with a sympathetic soul opposite me. And I shall go on talking, in a low voice while the sea sounds in the distance and overhead the great black flood of wind polishes the bright stars.”
― Ford Madox Ford, The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion