Tilly Meredith

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

“But man is not made for defeat," he said. "A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

“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

“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden