Tami

“Surely,' said she, 'there is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not even benefit themselves. How strange it is, that a fool or a knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty!”
― Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Only those who know each other well can speak without making sense and still be understood.”
― Bree Wolf, Condemned & Admired: The Earl's Cunning Wife