“Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.”
― Mansfield Park
― Mansfield Park
“There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.”
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“I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day.”
― The Shadow of the Wind
― The Shadow of the Wind
“No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.”
― Northanger Abbey
― Northanger Abbey
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