Dana

“Every few weeks she would shut herself up in her room, put on her scribbling suit, and fall into a vortex, as she expressed it, writing away at her novel with all her heart and soul, for till that was finished she could find no peace.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“Conceit spoils the finest genius.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”
― Nora Ephron

“Because you believed I was capable of behaving decently, I did.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Devil and Miss Prym