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“The War?” the patient asked. The European War—that little shindy of schoolboys with gunpowder?”

“The sound of Big Ben striking the half-hour stuck out between them with extraordinary vigour, as if a young man, strong, indifferent, inconsiderate, were swinging dumb-bells this way and that”

Mmm coffee shop

“The breeze had not seemed to waft the sighs of the murdered to her; it had wafted nothing worse than a tick mizzling rain”

“Her passion for ancient edifices was next in degree to her passion for Henry Tilley”

“At this rate, I shall not pity the writers of history any longer. If people like to read their books, it is all very well, but to be at so much trouble in filling great volumes, which, as I used to think, nobody would willingly look into, to be labouring only for the torment of little boys and girls, always struck me as a hard fate”

“And now I may dismiss my heroine to the sleepless couch, which is the true heroine’s portion; to a pillow strewed with thorns and wet with tears.”

Catherine girl what

Sparrow

“He hated the womanish sensibility which made him suffer so acutely from the grotesque chances of life”

Running away after one bad dinner was a choice

I hate when the man I used as a model for the villain in my silly little novel randomly proposes to me!?!

will refuse to look inward as to why I find this hilarious

“It struck me as pretty ridiculous to be called Mr Darcy and to stand on your own looking snooty at a party. It’s like being called Heathcliff and insisting on spending the entire evening in the garden, shouting ‘Cathy’ and banging your head against a tree”

I am only half a person without you