This was the rest of my life. And I was going to try my best, just like my mom had raised me to do, like she would have expected from me.


“I loved a man who had opened up a world to me but hadn’t loved me enough to stay in it.”
― After You
― After You

“I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!”
― Wuthering Heights
― Wuthering Heights

“He's always, always in my mind — not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself — but as my own being.”
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“Exertion should always be in proportion to what is required.”
― Pride and Prejudice / Northanger Abbey / Persuasion
― Pride and Prejudice / Northanger Abbey / Persuasion
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