Mary

“I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Take pride in your pain; you are stronger than those who have none”
― Lois Lowry, Gathering Blue

“How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself.”
― Gore Vidal, Julian

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of someone or other of their daughters.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice