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Oh, my dear Lily… this book will not be kind to you

“‘Why do you do this to me?’ she cried. ‘Why do you make the things I have chosen seem hateful to me, if you have nothing to give me instead?’
‘No, I have nothing to give you instead,’ he said, sitting up and turning so that he faced her. ‘If I had, it should be yours, you know.’”

“‘What a miserable future you foresee for me!’
‘Well—have you never foreseen it for yourself?’
The slow colour rose to her cheeks, not a blush of excitement but drawn from the deep wells of feeling; it was as if the effort of her spirit had produced it.
‘Often and often,’ she said. ‘But it looks so much darker when you show it to me!’”

“Selden had watched her manœuvres with lazy amusement. She had made no reply to his suggestion that they should spend the afternoon together, but as her plan unfolded itself he felt fairly confident of being included in it.”

This book is both very lovely and somewhat boring at the same time

“She had been bored all the afternoon by Percy Gryce—the mere thought seemed to waken an echo of his droning voice—but she could not ignore him on the morrow, she must follow up on his success, must submit to more boredom, must be ready with fresh compliances and adaptabilities, and all on the bare chance that he might ultimately decide to do her the honour of boring her for life.”

“How delicious to have a place like this all to one’s self! What a miserable thing it is to be a woman.”