Siren

“You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don't live the only life you have, you won't live some other life, you won't live any life at all.”
― James Baldwin

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“but whatever came, she had resolved never again to belong to another than herself.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening