John

“The variations of the Duchess's judgment spared no one, except her
husband. He alone had never been in love with her, in him she had
always felt an iron character, indifferent to the caprices that she
displayed, contemptuous of her beauty, violent, of a will that would
never bend, the sort under which alone nervous people can find
tranquillity.”
― Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way

“When you've nothing else construct ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“I believe in doing the thing you feel is right. If it looks right, it is right.”
― Dorothy Draper, Decorating Is Fun!: How to be Your Own Decorator

“Most timidities have such secret compensations and Miss Bart was discerning enough to know that the inner vanity is generally in proportion to the outer self depreciation.”
― Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth