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“I certainly have not the talent which some people possess,” said Darcy, “of conversing easily with those I have never seen before. I cannot catch their tone of conversation, or appear interested in their concerns, as I often see done.”
“My fingers,” said Elizabeth, “do not move over this instrument in the masterly manner which I see so many women’s do. They have not the same force or rapidity, and do not produce the same expression. But then I have always supposed it to be my own fault—because I will not take the trouble of practising. It is not that I do not believe my fingers as capable as any other woman’s of superior execution.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“I have made an important discovery… That alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, produces all the effects of intoxication.”
― Oscar Wilde, Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast

“No, don’t speak! Say nothing! Your voice wakes terrible memories–memories of things that made me love you–memories of words that made me love you–memories that are now horrible to me […] The world seemed to me finer because you were in it, and goodness more real because you lived.”
― Oscar Wilde

“The love of a bone dog, she thought, bending her head down over the paw again. All that I am worth these days.

Then again, few humans were truly worth the love of a living dog. Some gifts you could never deserve.”
― T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone