Jaime Allen

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“HELMER:—To forsake your home, your husband, and your children! You don’t consider what the world will say.
NORA:—I can pay no heed to that. I only know what I must do.
HELMER:—It is exasperating! Can you forsake your holiest duties in this world?
NORA:—What do you call my holiest duties?
HELMER:—Do you ask me that? Your duties to your husband and your children.
NORA:—I have other duties equally sacred.
HELMER:—Impossible! What duties do you mean?
NORA:—My duties towards myself.
HELMER:—Before all else you are a wife and a mother.
NORA:—That I no longer believe. I think that before all else I am a human being, just as much as you are—or at least I will try to become one.”
― Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

“Her love had reached a point where now at last she was beginning to be unhappy, to be desperate.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

“It’s easy for someone to joke about scars if they’ve never been cut.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet