Whitney

“Cleverness is a quality a man likes to have in his wife as long as she is some distance away from him. Up close, he'll take kindness any day of the week, if there's nothing more alluring to be had.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.”
― Erica Jong

“I always want to know the things one shouldn't do."
"So as to do them?" asked her aunt.
"So as to choose," said Isabel”
― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady