Erick

“Inside he was hurt. Not so much with Linda, but his failure to impress women generally with his abilities. There she was, an example: lending – no, giving –thirty thousand pounds to a smooth-talking old bastard, but she would not part with a penny to him after living with him for a year or more.”
― Max Nowaz, Get Rich or Get Lucky

“When I awoke it was daylight. The inside of my tent was coated in a curious flaky rime, which I realized after a moment was all of my nighttime snores, condensed and frozen and pasted to the fabric, as if into a scrapbook of respiratory memories.”
― Bill Bryson, A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail

“In the evening when she had worked till she was weary she had no bed to go to, but had to sleep by the fireside in the ashes. And as on that account she always looked dusty and dirty, they called her Cinderella.”
― Jacob Grimm, Household Tales by the Brothers Grimm

“Anne hoped she had outlived the age of blushing; but the age of emotion she certainly had not.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion