Sophie

“Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation."
"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.”
― Charlotte Brontë , Jane Eyre

“How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel!”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

“He wanted to put his arms around her, but she had a darkness that seemed to stand beside her like an acquaintance that would not go away.”
― Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge

“Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.”
― Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd