Ross Miller

“Because,” Buttercup said, “marriage involves love, and that is not a pastime at which I excel. I tried once, and it went badly, and I am sworn never to love another.”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride

“There is so much ignorant prejudice against bees in a dining-room.”
― Patrick o'brian, Post Captain

“There was one thing he clung to, an excuse perhaps, like the dead emperor. It was the soul of the wretch, apathy, the belief that nothing was his fault, the belief that he couldn't change anything. If a man was cursed or if he believed he didn't have to care then he didn't need to hurt when he failed. Those failures couldn't have been prevented. Someone or something else had ordained them.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings Prime

“Sadly, sadly, the sun rose; and it rose upon no sadder sight than the man of good abilities and good emotions, incapable of their directed exercise, incapable of his own help and his own happiness, sensible of the blight on him, and resigning himself to let it eat him away.”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities