Sonja

“I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.”
― Jane Austen

“If I be waspish, best beware my sting.”
― William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew

“Burdens are for shoulders strong enough to carry them.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind