Giulia

“You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these last twenty years at least.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“I suppose at one time in my life I might have had any number of stories, but now there is no other. This is the only story I will ever be able to tell.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“Affectation of candour is common enough—one meets with it everywhere. But to be candid without ostentation or design—to take the good of everybody's character and make it still better, and say nothing of the bad—belongs to you alone.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird