Catherine

“I won't say she was silly, but I think one of us was silly, and it was not me.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters

“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“A pretty sight, a lady with a book.”
― Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle