Cheryl Newey

“We quickly notice how very few metaphors Jane Austen uses...we can see that Jane Austen's works do seem to aim at establishing ' a single world of discourse' and that she is not at all concerned to 'join a plurality of worlds'. Such a 'plurality' could lead to a potentially uncontrollable proliferation of ambiguities and possible meanings, whereas the drive of her writing seems to aim at a 'single' sense ... Jane Austen aims at a total transparency...”
― Tony Tanner, Jane Austen

“There would be a perilous moment, perhaps: but could she not trust to her beauty to bridge it over, to land her safe in the shelter of his devotion?”
― Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth

“The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.” (Book 5, chapter 89)”
― Thucydides, The History Of The Peloponnesian War: FREE The Aeneid By Virgil, 100% Formatted, Illustrated - JBS Classics

“The Cuchan heat and humidity are so stultifying that house flies lose altitude and tumble to the floor. Shop boys sit heavy lidded and after lunch as unmoving as the cement barriers in the harbor. The city will come to life again only in the evening when its cooler.”
― Verghese, Abraham