Quote by George Eliot: “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”

No matter how far down a wrong path you've gone, or how much time feels wasted, the person you could become is still available to you. Starting over is always possible. The life you wanted for yourself is not cancelled by the detours you've taken.

Eliot wrote during the Victorian era in Britain, a period of rapid industrialization, social upheaval, and shifting class boundaries. She herself had defied social convention by living openly with a married man, George Henry Lewes, and publishing under a male pen name to be taken seriously in the literary establishment.

Pen name of Mary Ann Evans, one of the leading novelists of the Victorian era, whose works explored moral complexity and the inner lives of ordinary people. Her masterwork Middlemarch is widely regarded as one of the greatest novels in the English language.