Hannah Segui

“he looked up with the satisfied air of a man who thinks he has made a discovery when he has commented on someone else’s idea,”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“an indefinable charm which is to a woman what its scent is to a flower and its flavour to a fruit; for it is not enough for a flower to be beautiful or for a fruit to be fine-looking.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“Long relationships might be richer, but relatively brief, relatively uncomplicated encounters with interesting people could be lovely as well. Every person you knew, every person you loved even, did not have to consume you for the time to have been worthwhile.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“I have always been more afraid of a pen, a bottle of ink and a sheet of paper than of a sword or a pistol.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo