Emílie

“Contra mundum?"
"Contra mundum.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

“It’s frighteningly easy to get lost in your own subconscious; any place you think you know is different after dark.”
― M.L. Rio, Graveyard Shift

“That is the problem with imagination – the more you use it, the more you see that the world in your head is not really the world you live in at all.”
― Robin Stevens, A Spoonful of Murder

“I wish," said the old lady, "for her own sake, for the sake of her family, and for the sake of her reputation, that my lady Delacour had fewer admirers, and more friends."

"Women, who have met with so many admirers, seldom meet with many friends," said lady Anne.

"No," said Mrs. Delacour, "for they seldom are wise enough to know their value."

"We learn the value of all things, but especially of friends, by experience," said lady Anne, "and it is no wonder, therefore, that those who have little experience of the pleasures of friendship should not be wise enough to know their value.”
― Maria Edgeworth, Belinda