
“He always thought of the sea as 'la mar' which is what people call her in Spanish when they love her. Sometimes those who love her say bad things of her but they are always said as though she were a woman"
Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

“HELMER: But this is disgraceful. Is this the way you neglect your most sacred duties?
NORA: What do you consider is my most sacred duty?
HELMER: Do I have to tell you that? Isn't it your duty to your husband and children?
NORA: I have another duty, just as sacred.
HELMER: You can't have. What duty do you mean?
NORA: My duty to myself.”
NORA: What do you consider is my most sacred duty?
HELMER: Do I have to tell you that? Isn't it your duty to your husband and children?
NORA: I have another duty, just as sacred.
HELMER: You can't have. What duty do you mean?
NORA: My duty to myself.”
Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

“Reader, I married him.”
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“To define is to limit.”
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“I fell in love on the beach,” said Rosemary. “Who with?”
“First with a whole lot of people who looked nice. Then with one man”
“First with a whole lot of people who looked nice. Then with one man”
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night

“Until death it is all life.”
Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote