Catherine

“Oh, for shame! Nancy, have you never seen Florrie's face in a chrysanthemum, or a rose?'

'Never.' I said. 'Though there was a flounder for sale on a fishmonger's barrow, in Whitechapel yesterday, and the likeness was quite uncanny. I very nearly brought it home...”
― Sarah Waters, Tipping the Velvet

“[O]ne of the mixed blessings of being twenty and twenty-one and even twenty-three is the conviction that nothing like this, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding, has ever happened before.”
― Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem

“A pretty sight, a lady with a book.”
― Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

“She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity.”
― Flannery O'Connor