Miranda

“who had taken a violent fancy to me, mistaking me for something vastly better than I was.”
― Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

“Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.”
― Charlotte Brontë , Villette

“I imagine there must be only a very, very few men in the world, that I should like to marry; and of those few, it is ten to one I may never be acquainted with one; or if I should, it is twenty to one he may not happen to be single, or to take a fancy to me.”
― Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
― Leo Tolstoy