Jessica

“Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“I've never met a strong person with an easy past.”
― Atticus

“A fondness for reading, properly directed, must be an education in itself.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park