Reid

“How strange and changeful is life! How small a thing is needed to make or ruin us!”
― Guy de Maupassant, The Necklace

“And as for him, it would be enough to make her understand that this was the smile she had seen the other evening near the building site and that it hadn't been interrupted because of any willingness on his part not to allow it to appear, but that in reality it had never ceased flowing between them, an invisible spring, from the very first.”
― Marguerite Duras, Des journées entières dans les arbres

“The thing that you love with a violent passion always kills you in the end.”
― Guy de Maupassant, A Night in Paris

“Sir Jasper Finch-Farrowmere?’ said Wilfred.
‘ffinch-ffarrowmere,’ corrected the visitor, his sensitive ear detecting the capitals.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Meet Mr. Mulliner