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“I had never seen anyone like her. That was the thing. No woman had ever been as definite, as robust. No woman, no man, nobody had ever been so much like themselves as she was.”
― Nell Stevens, Briefly, A Delicious Life

“Whereas man grows old gradually, woman is suddenly deprived of her femininity; she is still relatively young when she loses the erotic attractiveness and the fertility which, in the views of society and in her own, provide the justification for her existence and her opportunity for happiness.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

“Here is the first passionate love-letter I have ever written in my life, Strange, that my first passionate love-letter should have been addressed to a dead girl.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“What are you doing here and how can I persuade you to stay?”
― Nell Stevens, Briefly, A Delicious Life