“Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.”
― Pride And Prejudice
― Pride And Prejudice
“There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.”
― Pride and Prejudice
― Pride and Prejudice
“Everyone is a part of a story, what they want is to be part of something worth recording”
― The Starless Sea
― The Starless Sea
“But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.”
― Pride and Prejudice
― Pride and Prejudice
“Isn't that what anyone wants, though?" the girl with the cat-eye glasses asks in response. "To be able to make your own choices and decisions but to have it be part of a story?" You want that narrative there to trust in, even if you want to maintain your own free will."
"You want to decide where to go and what to do and which door to open but you still want to win the game...”
― The Starless Sea
"You want to decide where to go and what to do and which door to open but you still want to win the game...”
― The Starless Sea
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