Heloise

“Did I used to think being pretty was my primary obligation because I was in some way delusional? Or was it that I'd absorbed the messages I was meant to absorb with the same diligence with which I studied? As the mother of a daughter, I hope she won't judge herself as harshly as I judged myself, but her personality is so unlike mine - she is boisterous and outspoken - that I'm not inordinately concerned.”
― Curtis Sittenfeld, You Think It, I'll Say It

“There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

“Treachery and violence are a just return for treachery and violence.”
― Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

“If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.”
― Jane Austen, Emma