She had little effort to spare for making unpleasant men more comfortable.
“Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“God bless the book people for their boundless knowledge absorbed from having words instead of friends.”
― The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue
― The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue
“Man is many things, but he is not rational.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“We're not courting trouble," I say. "Flirting with it, at most.”
― The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue
― The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue
“Against the sky, the stars crown him, marking the edges of his silhouette like he is a constellation of himself.”
― The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue
― The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue
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