Olivia Lo

“I that evening shut my eyes resolutely against the future: I stopped my ears against the voice that kept warning me of near separation and coming grief. When tea was over and Mrs. Fairfax had taken her knitting, and I had assumed a low seat near her, and Adèle, kneeling on the carpet, had nestled close up to me, and a sense of mutual affection seemed to surround us with a ring of golden peace, I uttered a silent prayer that we might not be parted far or soon; but when, as we thus sat, Mr. Rochester entered, unannounced, and looking at us, seemed to take pleasure in the spectacle of a group so amicable—when he said he supposed the old lady was all right now that she had got her adopted daughter back again, and added that he saw Adèle was “prête à croquer sa petite maman Anglaise”—I half ventured to hope that he would, even after his marriage, keep us together somewhere under the shelter of his protection, and not quite exiled from the sunshine of his presence.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Keynes gravely misjudged what most people prioritise. It is not reading books or hiking with friends. It is buying books—or a new car, a bigger house or another holiday. He failed to distinguish between true needs and perceived desires. People easily prioritise desires over needs, even though it makes them unhappy.”
― Jonas Hjalmar Blom, Du Hinner! Ta makten över din tid

“I don’t judge someone simply because they aren’t like me.”
― Thomas Erikson, Surrounded by Idiots

“Everyone has his or her own way of learning things. His way isn't the same as mine, nor mine as his. But we're both in search of our destinies, and I respect him for that.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist