

“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”
― Pride and Prejudice
― Pride and Prejudice

“Love is a great beautifier.”
― Little Women
― Little Women

“We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.”
― Mansfield Park
― Mansfield Park

“It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.”
― The Sun Also Rises
― The Sun Also Rises

“You're an expatriate. You've lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death. You become obsessed with sex. You spend all your time talking, not working. You are an expatriate, see? You hang around cafes.”
― The Sun Also Rises
― The Sun Also Rises
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