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

“He began to feel the danger of paying Elizabeth too much attention.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History