Susan

“I feel like I constantly demonstrate poor judgment. I don’t feel qualified to choose between fried or scrambled eggs.”
― Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping

“that feeling of contrition which comes to all of us when we have made up our minds to dislike people for no apparent reason and they then perform some kind action.”
― Barbara Pym, The Barbara Pym Collection Volume One: A Glass of Blessings / Some Tame Gazelle / and Jane and Prudence

“travelling from Tunbridge towards that part of the Sussex coast which lies between Hastings and Eastbourne, being induced by business to quit the high road and attempt a very rough lane, were overturned in toiling up its long ascent, half rock, half sand.”
― Jane Austen, Jane Austen: The Complete Collection

“The first major postrevolutionary liberal in France was Benjamin Constant (whose novel Adolphe is better remembered than his political writings), who celebrated what he called “the liberty of the moderns” (actual liberty in day-to-day private affairs) in contrast to the classical “liberty of the ancients” that the French revolutionaries relied on overmuch, which merely meant “equal powerlessness before the state and equal participation in public affairs.”38”
― Brian Doherty, Radicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement