Lorraine

“A lovely young Italian girl passed by. Byron tilted his head to a very odd angle, half-closed his eyes and composed his features to suggest that he was about to expire from chronic indigestion. Dr Greysteel could only suppose that he was treating the young woman to the Byronic profile and the Byronic expression.”
― Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

“He’s a young man, my own age or a little older, which is young for a man although not for a woman, as at my age a woman is an old maid but a man is not an old bachelor until he’s fifty, and even then there’s still hope for the ladies, as Mary Whitney used to say.”
― Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace

“For men are held above their fellows by the gossamer of reputation, which is so soft and fragile a breath can blow it away.”
― Iain Pears

“Memories are meant to serve you, not enslave you.”
― A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar