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I do not truly wish for all my dreams to come true. After all, nightmares are one type of dream.
Those we love know exactly what we are in spite of everything—and that is both a benefit and a dilemma.
When you set out to change someone’s opinion of you, you must first start with your own.
‘It’s never too late to become what you might have been.’ That’s George Eliot,
No matter what else I lose, no one is capable of separating me from my dignity—except on occasion myself.
‘No sensible man engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman.’
The weakest version of the real you is stronger than the best imitation of someone else.”
“If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me. I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it.”
Ordinary men and everyday romances are the sweetest and deepest.”
Even without meeting a person, we can determine a lot about her by looking at the people she allows into her life.
Every man needs a good woman to draw out neglected parts of himself and shine them up a bit.”
Comparison is always an unfair battle because it pits your own reality against another woman’s façade.
If a lady’s beauty comes from what is within, no one can threaten or change it because it is out of reach.
“Keep in mind that when it comes to enemies, they only threaten those they believe are a threat to them.
I’m beginning to understand that the power never lies in the gown, but in the heart of the lady who dons it.
my fear of Prendergast rising to the surface like driftwood in the ocean.
was as if he were a music box and she the key
You are who God made you and nothing can change that. Not even you.
