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“My idea of good company...is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.'
'You are mistaken,' said he gently, 'that is not good company, that is the best.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

“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

“But what really happened? The answer is simple: the lovers survive and flourish.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

“Others pointed out that another of Grandley’s pigs had been killed, and the piglets standing nearby were stained with blood.

Had they colluded? It was all too suspicious. They had best be safe and put the piglets on trial, too.

Due to their tender age, however, the piglets were granted clemency.”
― Jennifer Sherman Roberts, The Village Healer’s Book of Cures