Monica

“I tell you, if the whole world, and everybody in it, was as weak and frightened as I am now, and as unsure of everything – unsure of themselves, their place in the scheme of things – it’d be a far better place. No more enthusiasts, no heroic deeds, no commitment, just general all-round pusillanimity! I’d be content to live on this earth for all eternity, if somebody’d just show me a corner of it where there’s not always room for heroics. ‘General pusillanimity’ – yes, that’s our remedy for all ills...”
― Erofeev Venedikt, Moskva-Petushki

“A girl almost always likes a man who is in love with her,—unless indeed she positively dislikes him.”
― Anthony Trollope, The Palliser Novels: Complete Series - All 6 Books in One Edition: Enriched edition. Can You Forgive Her?, Phineas Finn, The Eustace Diamonds, Phineas Redux, The Prime Minister & The Duke's Children

“What could she do with a man who had no ideas of his own as to what he ought to do with himself?”
― Anthony Trollope, The Palliser Novels: Complete Series - All 6 Books in One Edition: Enriched edition. Can You Forgive Her?, Phineas Finn, The Eustace Diamonds, Phineas Redux, The Prime Minister & The Duke's Children

“I doubt whether an old man should ever live in England if he can help it.”
― Anthony Trollope, Phineas Finn: The Irish Member