Eva

“But Venice, like Oxford, had kept the background for romance, and, to the true romantic, background was everything, or almost everything.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“I have too many fantasies to be a housewife.... I guess I am a fantasy.”
― Marilyn Monroe