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“Couples tended to be of roughly equivalent personal attractiveness, though of course factors such as money often seemed to secure a partner of significantly better looks than oneself.”
― Robert Galbraith, The Cuckoo's Calling

“для успеха на службе были нужны не усилия, не труды, не храбрость, не постоянство, а нужно было только умение обращаться с теми, которые вознаграждают за службу, – и он часто удивлялся своим быстрым успехам”
― Leo Tolstoy, Война и мир

“Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“just felt like I’d slipped into some other universe, one that had even less justice than the one I’d grown up in. I”
― Anna North, The Life and Death of Sophie Stark