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I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.

—Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out

Sometimes you don’t even know what you really want until you get what you thought you wanted.

—Debbie Viguié, The Summer of Cotton Candy

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I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.

—Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.

—Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

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A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony, in a moment.

—Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

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I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean sound, like the snapping of a flower’s stem.

—Diana Gabaldon, Dragonfly in Amber

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Great books give you a feeling that you miss all day, until you finally get to crawl back inside those pages again.

—Kathryn Stockett

As the sea is beautiful not only in calm but also in storm, so is happiness found not only in peace but also in strife.

—Ivan Panin, Thoughts