I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
I'm going to have a different life to most girls, I don't want to be like Mother or all those other women who have a family and then they're forgotten. I don't want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to go on living, even after my death.