Katie

“Alexander's armies were great makers of conquests; and Napoleon's armies were great makers of conquests; but the modern Guerilla regiments of the hod, the trowel, and the brick-kiln, are the greatest conquerors of all; for they hold the longest the soil that they have once possessed.”
― Wilkie Collins, Hide And Seek

“Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talk that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence.”
― E.M. Forster, A Passage to India

“Miss Morris’s idea of an apology is a repetition of her offence with increased rudeness.”
― Anthony Trollope, The Eustace Diamonds

“She had no knowledge that she had thought much of him that evening, but the whole time the thought of his dark, narrow face and his quiet voice had hung somewhere in the dusk outside the glow of light that enfolded her spirit.”
― Sigrid Undset, The Bridal Wreath