Lydia Rigsby

“But in reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself. Like the night sky in the Greek poem, I see with a myriad eyes, but it is still I who see. Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action, and in knowing, I transcend myself; and am never more myself than when I do.”
― C.S. Lewis, An Experiment in Criticism

“if it’s within your power to give another person great joy at little or no expense to yourself— or even at great expense— then you should, especially when you love that person.”
― Penny Reid

“The distance is nothing when one has a motive.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice