Andi Paige

“I shall never more know the sweet homage given to beauty, youth, and grace for never to any one else shall I seem to possess these charms. He was fond and proud of me -- it is what no man besides will ever be. Whether is it better, I ask, to be a slave in a fool's paradise at Marseilles - fevered with delusive bliss one hour -- suffocating with the bitterest tears of remorse and shame the next - or to be a village schoolmistress, free and honest, in a breezy mountain nook in the healthy heart of England?”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“He knows that there’s no better way in the world to aggravate somebody who’s trying to make it hard for you than by acting like you’re not bothered.”
― Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

“Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. We are, and must be, one and all, burdened with faults in this world: but the time will soon come when, I trust, we shall put them off in putting off from us with this cumbrous frame of flesh, and only the spark of the spirit will remain, the impalpable principle of life and thought, pure as when it left the Creator to inspire the creature: whence it came it will return; perhaps again to be communicated to some being higher than man - perhaps to pass through gradations of glory, from the pale human soul to brighten to the seraph!”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“I’ve seen a thousand of em’ old and young, men and women. Seen em’ all over the country and in the homes-people who try to make you weak so they can get you to toe the line, to follow their rules, to live like they want you to. And the best way to do this, to get you to knuckle under, is to weaken you by gettin’ you where it hurts the worst.”
― Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest