Sarah Whitney

“The evening ended with dancing. On its being proposed, Anne offered her services, as usual, and though her eyes would sometimes fill with tears as she sat at the instrument, she was extremely glad to be employed, and desired nothing in return but to be unobserved.”
― Jane Austen

“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“I sit there thinking about how much courage it takes to live an ordinary life.”
― Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin

“How green was my valley then, and the valley of them that have gone.”
― Richard Llewellyn, How Green Was My Valley