She thought that what we were doing was just and necessary; I had forgotten every good reason, and certainly was there only because she was.
“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
― Pride and Prejudice
― Pride and Prejudice
“No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die.”
― White Noise
― White Noise
“Jim said that bees won't sting idiots, but I didn't believe that, because I tried them lots of times myself and they wouldn't sting me.”
― The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
― The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
“I always want to know the things one shouldn't do."
"So as to do them?" asked her aunt.
"So as to choose," said Isabel”
― The Portrait of a Lady
"So as to do them?" asked her aunt.
"So as to choose," said Isabel”
― The Portrait of a Lady
“Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain't that a big enough majority in any town?”
― The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
― The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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