Cloey Aconley

“I have not the pleasure of understanding you.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

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

“People with self-respect exhibit a certain toughness, a kind of moral nerve; they display what was once called *character,* a quality which, although approved in the abstract, sometimes loses ground to the other, more instantly negotiable virtues.... character--the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life--is the source from which self-respect springs.”
― Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem

“You have been the last dream of my soul.”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities