You will never have to marry for money. You will never have to depend on anyne but yourself.

I'd always thought I would feel like an animal released from its cage when my student days were finished, I felt more like a bird that had been pushed from its nest and told it must fly.

Even in the most wretched life, there’s hope.

Why does life carry some people on the crest of the wave while others drown beneath the water?

But we are all sorry when loss comes for us. The test of our character comes not in how many tears we shed but in how we act after those tears have dried.

You want it to feel like a surprise. You want to keep him guessing whether he'll make you smile entirely so that when you do, he will feel like he's been given a gift.

...she refused to leave anything to someone else that she could do better herself.