Kev W

“Where's little Newt?" Deets asked.”
― Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove

“The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes,”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“but they knew, either instinctively or from experience, that our impulsive emotions have but little influence over the course of our actions and the conduct of our lives; and that regard for moral obligations, loyalty to friends, patience in finishing our work, obedience to a rule of life, have a surer foundation in habits solidly formed and blindly followed than in these momentary transports, ardent but sterile.”
― Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time: The Complete Masterpiece

“Rarely did that hour of the evening come, rarely did I wake at night, rarely did I look up at the moon, or stars, or watch the falling rain, or hear the wind, but I thought of his solitary figure toiling on, poor pilgrim, and recalled the words: “I’m a-going to seek her, fur and wide. If any hurt should come to me, remember that the last words I left for her was, ‘My unchanged love is with my darling child, and I forgive her!”
― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield