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“I'd rather take coffee than compliments just now.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“Let us be elegant or die!”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“I like good strong words that mean something…”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

“A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Do you like him much?'
I told you I liked him a little. Where is the use of caring for him so very much: he is full of faults.'
Is he?'
All boys are.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Villette

“I remember the air outside being redolent of farmyards, proper rural smells, but also the fresh, clean scent of the countryside, and that I was fascinated by the well fifty yards beyond the garage, which always seemed to produce fresh water. I can still conjure in my mind the outdoor fragrance of my grandfather’s clothes – I used to love pressing my nose into the folds of his coat, immersing myself in all it represented.
It was a simple house, defined by simple things, but no less profound for that.”
― David Nott, War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line

“Is the practice of medicine a business or is it a vocation? Where does the balance lie between doing well and doing good?”
― David Nott, War Doctor Surgery on the Front Line:

“My main memory from those early years is of fun and laughter and love – and also a deep connection with Wales. I didn’t realize it at the time – it was all I knew – but speaking Welsh around the dinner table was another bond, both with each other and with our community. The sense of belonging and being surrounded by family love made us very secure. And the simplicity of the way we lived – not in luxury, by any means, but not hankering after things we couldn’t have, or being led astray or feeling we were missing out on anything – was deeply ingrained.
It was a very Welsh childhood, and to me completely magical. It was the mould I came from, by which I have always been indelibly marked. It was the making of me.”
― David Nott, War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line

“His mind was indeed my library, and whenever it was opened to me, I entered bliss.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Villette

“If life be a war, it seemed my destiny to conduct it single-handed.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Villette

“Great pains were taken to hide chains with flowers”
― Charlotte Brontë, Villette

“Picture me then idle, basking, plump, and happy, stretched on a cushioned deck, warmed with constant sunshine, rocked by breezes indolently soft.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Villette

“His veins were dark with a vivid belladonna tincture, the essence of jealousy.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Villette

“He fumed like a bottled storm.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Villette

“I see on your cheek two tears which I know are hot as two sparks, and salt as two crystals of the sea.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Villette

“My only love sprung from my only hate!
Too early seen unknown, and known too late!
Prodigious birth of love it is to me,
That I must love a loathed enemy.”
― William Shakespeare

“The fact is, I love him. He's the boy I want and one day he'll be MINE.”
― Meg Cabot, Princess in Training

“I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out of me with steel pipes.”
― Patton Oswalt

“From my mother, I learned that beauty was armor. From my teenage friends, I learned that femininity was junk. They were both right.”
― Chelsea G. Summers, A Certain Hunger

“Tell a woman she is beautiful, and she might—it’s very possible—feel
like a fool. Roses die quick. They will do.
The girl you want does not exist.
The girl you want does exist.
But not like that. And not like that. Or like that. Or like that.
She is sitting across from you, looking just beyond you—at herself.”
― Durga Chew-Bose, Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays

“I decide to turn to my old faithful solution to all that is wrong in life. Coffee.”
― Lisa Renee Jones, If I Were You

“Behind every sucessful person lies a pack of haters”
― Eminem

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

“You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
― Winston Churchill

“Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”
― Abraham Lincoln

“The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows