Emily

“But if we never acted except when we were certain our motives were pure, we would never act at all.”
― C J Sansom

“My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

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

“Sometimes when he was in the country he would sleep in a barn and wake in the night and go out and look at the stars and there were so many, and he knew they were there before him, and they would be there after him. That was sort of awful and sort of wonderful.”
― Richard Bachman, Blaze