Plume

“I'm sure it's wrong to go on being good for too long, till one gets miserable. And I can see you've been good for years and years, because you look so unhappy.”
― Elizabeth von Arnim, The Enchanted April

“He made the mistake of imagining that his possessions were a measure of his own worth, and strutted and crowed, parading his things like a schoolboy with a champion catapult.”
― John Banville, The Book of Evidence

“Stack, like every man who has never known a woman, believed he knew a great deal about women.”
― Claire Keegan, Walk the Blue Fields

“To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text,”
― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady