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“This was principally owing to his grandmother, who had, during the life of the Laird, her husband, languished, almost from her wedding-day, in a state of uninterested resignation of spirit, so quiet, and yet so melancholy, that it partook far more of the nature of dejection than contentment.”
― John Galt, The Entail

“I suppose George is too old to take things to eat, and no one is too old to take a life. People can only be too young for it. When they are young enough, they do not pay the penalty, as though they cannot really have done it.”
― Ivy Compton-Burnett, Manservant and Maidservant

“It was something you found in new countries: people came to them to change who they were, not by self-improvement, but by creating a better or more interesting past.”
― Wendy M Wilson, Death in the Bush: An Amateur Sleuth Historical Mystery Set in the Wild New Zealand Bush

“What they need is to become children again. They have been forced too far forward by this suspicion of something beyond them.”
― Ivy Compton-Burnett, Manservant and Maidservant