Laura

“Working hard is important. But there’s something that matters even more. Believing in yourself.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“I should have gone through life half awake if you'd had the decency to leave me alone. Awake intellectually, yes, and emotionally in a way; but here--" He pointed with his pipe stem to his heart; and both smiled. "Perhaps we woke up one another. I like to think that anyway.”
― E.M. Forster

“I cannot make speeches, Emma...If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me. I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“People see what they wish to see. And in most cases, what they are told that they see.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus