Roos

“If a woman conceals her affection with the same skill from the object of it, she may lose the opportunity of fixing him; and it will then be but poor consolation to believe the world equally in the dark. There is so much of gratitude or vanity in almost any attachment, that it is not safe to leave any to itself. We can all begin ‘freely’- as light preference is natural enough; but there are very few of us who have a heart enough to be really in love without encouragement.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“I do not wish to avoid the walk. The distance is nothing when one has a motive.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it. ”
― Benjamin Disraeli