Rachel

“I hope you have sent your jewels to the bank,’ I said.

‘Oh, darling, don’t tease, you know how I haven’t got any now. But my money,’ she said with a self-conscious giggle, ‘is sewn into my stays. Fa rang up and begged me to, and I must say it did seem quite an idea. Oh, why aren’t you coming? I do feel so terrified – think of sleeping in the train, all alone.’

‘Perhaps you won’t be alone,’ I said. ‘Foreigners are greatly given, I believe, to rape.’

‘Yes, that would be nice, so long as they didn’t find my stays. Oh, we are off – good-bye darling, do think of me,’ she said, and, clenching her suède-covered fist, she shook it out of the window in a Communist salute.”
― Nancy Mitford, The Pursuit of Love

“Nice clean cut," Santos said, and Louise almost said thank you but managed to stop herself.”
― Grady Hendrix, How to Sell a Haunted House

“I prayed and read the Bible, but I couldn't get any help. You don't notice how little there is in the Bible really till you go to it for help.”
― Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier

“carry yourself with the confidence of a mediocre white man”
― Ali Hazelwood, The Love Hypothesis