Janice

“She was daily surprised by the things he knew and the things he did not know; both, at the time, added to his attraction.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

“And if you think you have wronged me by giving me your friendship, and occasionally admitting me to the enjoyment of your company and conversation, when all hopes of closer intimacy were vain - as indeed you always gave me to understand - if you think you have wronged me by this, you are mistaken; for such favours, in themselves alone, are not only delightful to my heart, but purifying, exalting, ennobling to my soul; and I would have your friendship than the love of any other woman in the world!”
― Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

“O God, make me good, but not yet.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

“If it could only be like this always – always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper...”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited