Monica

“A woman who is alone in the world is ever regarded with suspicion.”
― Anthony Trollope, Phineas Finn: The Irish Member

“Is it not astonishing that the price generally put upon any article by the world is that which the owner puts on it?—and that this is specially true of a man's own self?”
― Anthony Trollope, Phineas Finn: The Irish Member

“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

“Matrimony never seemed to me to be very charming, and upon my word it does not become more alluring by what I find at Loughlinter.”
― Anthony Trollope, Phineas Finn: The Irish Member