Sophie

“Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.”
― Jean Paul Sartre

“Of course I loved books more than people.”
― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

“I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“I want to say somewhere: I've tried to be forgiving. And yet. There were times in my life, whole years, when anger got the better of me. Ugliness turned me inside out. There was a certain satisfaction in bitterness. I courted it. It was standing outside, and I invited it in.”
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love