Petra

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

“Were you ever in love, Clarendel? speak the truth. I am just seized with a passionate desire to know.’

‘Why . . . yes.. ‘ answered he, pulling his lips with his fingers, ‘I think–I rather think. . . . I was once.’

‘O tell! tell! tell!’

‘Nay, I am not very positive. One hears it is to happen; and one is put upon thinking of it, while so very young, that one soon takes it for granted. Define it a little, and I can answer you more accurately. Pray, is it any thing beyond being very fond, and very silly, with a little touch of melancholy?”
― Fanny Burney, Camilla

“If the best of one's feelings means nothing to the person most concerned in those feelings, what reality is left us?”
― Virginia Woolf, Night and Day

“This only unconcerned spectator in the midst of the apparent general bustle, was Mr Meadows; who viewed all that passed without troubling himself to interfere, and with an air of the most evident carelessness whether matters went well or went ill.”
― Fanny Burney, Cecilia