Styu

“The beauty or ugliness of a character lay not only in its achievements, but in its aims and impulses; its true history lay, not among things done, but among things willed.”
― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles

“I'd rather take coffee than compliments just now.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“People become melancholic when they start thinking about life. They become cynics because they see what other people do with life.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, Three Comrades

“Interesting things did seem to happen, but always to somebody else.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl's Moving Castle