Status Updates From The Portrait of a Lady

'The real offence, as she ultimately perceived, was her having a mind of her own at all.'

'She was admirably finished; she had had the last touch; she was really a consummate piece. He thought of her in amorous meditation a good deal as he might have thought of a Dresden-china shepherdess.'

this book is like dragging a corpse through molasses up a mountain with a vertical ascent. i read this on the bus when i know someone is looking over my shoulder to look smart