Nellie

“My heart almost died within me; miserable longings strained its chords. How long were the September days! How silent, how lifeless!”
― Charlotte Brontë, Villette

“It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcoticized by technological diversions”
― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

“It strikes me that religion—in its essence—seeks to take natural events and ascribe supernatural causes to them. I, however, seek to take supernatural events and find the natural meanings behind them. Perhaps that is the final dividing line between science and religion. Opposite sides of a card.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

“Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.”
― Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband