Annie

“She felt the nameless fear which precede all emotions, joyous or sorrowful, inevitable as a hum of thunder precedes a storm”
― F Scott Fitzgerald, TENDER IS THE NIGHT With an introduction by Charles Scriner III and illustrations by Fred Meyer.

“He felt that she had at last arrived at an understanding with herself: had made a pact with her rebellious impulses, and achieved a uniform system of self-government, under which all vagrant tendencies were either held captive or forced into the service of the state.”
― Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth & The Age of Innocence

“I don’t enjoy your beauty any the less because I know how much it owes to the happy combination of perfect taste and ruthless determination”
― W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor’s Edge

“I prefer the simplicity of his mind to the false enlightenment of yours”
― George Sand, The Devil's Pool and Other Stories