Becs

“I've been keeping up appearances all my life. Now I'm going in for realities.”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Blue Castle

“It’s all I’ve ever wanted, really. Someone to make tea for. To know how they like to drink it, and share some pieces of time with them at the end of long days, and short ones, good days and bad, and everything in between.”
― Alexis Hall, Waiting for the Flood

“You haven’t tried kissing,” Cassandra told her. “You might like it. Helen does.” “Helen likes Brussels sprouts. How can anyone trust her opinion?”
― Lisa Kleypas, Marrying Winterborne

“The discovery of some toy duck in the soap dish, presumably the property of some former juvenile visitor, contributed not a little to this new and happier frame of mind. What with one thing and another, I hadn't played with toy ducks in my bath for years, and I found the novel experience most invigorating. For the benefit of those interested, I may mention that if you shove the thing under the surface with the sponge and then let it go, it shoots out of the water in a manner calculated to divert the most careworn. Ten minutes of this and I was enabled to return to the bedchamber much more the merry old Bertram.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Right Ho, Jeeves