Kate Mitchell

“Live all you can. It’s a mistake not to.”
― Henry James, The Ambassadors

“I'm not in my first youth—I can do what I choose—I belong quite to the independent class. I've neither father nor mother; I'm poor and of a serious disposition; I'm not pretty. I therefore am not bound to be timid and conventional; indeed I can't afford such luxuries. Besides, I try to judge things for myself; to judge wrong, I think, is more honourable than not to judge at all. I don't wish to be a mere sheep in the flock; I wish to choose my fate and know something of human affairs beyond what other people think it compatible with propriety to tell me.”
― Henry James

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Fear follows crime and is its punishment.”
― Voltaire