Lie still, it said. If you do not rise, do not move, nothing can hurt you. Simply do nothing, say nothing, be nowhere.
Sometimes there is no comfort, only the knowledge that the worst has happened
Life is long, my young friend. Do not make it more difficult than it already has to be.
Stay. I nearly asked to see her again. Just to talk, I wanted to say. To talk to someone who enjoys listening.
Greed can destroy so much, Sir Montague nodded.
Well as street vendors crying their wares. The mob had
Things could crawl at you out of the dark and hurt you again and again. The past did not always stay dead.
Hmm, I said. Nuisance at least sounded affectionate. My wife had been alternately terrified of or furious with me.
Poetry can be tedious. Too many words to say a simple thing.
A man’s character and honor made him stand above others, not his religion or strata in life.
You do not rush to obey those who seek to command you. Your independence makes people puzzle over you.
I have never been married. The married women of my acquaintance rarely speak of their husbands at all, except as a nuisance to be borne.
When one is lonely, one does foolish things.
I also thought about Lady Breckenridge. After a heartbreak last year, I was not in the mood to fall in love with another lady, but Lady Breckenridge had demanded nothing of me.
Mrs. Bennington’s dramatic expression faded, and she made a face, much like a girl who has been given porridge when she expected thick ham.
He was no doubt correct. Greed is all-consuming, I remarked. He laughed. You poor idiot. The day of the gentleman is over. Only those with money will matter, only those who can pay will command respe...
But perhaps peace was not in a place but within one's self.
Marianne had learned to live by her wits, and she took a severe and cynical view of the world.
A gentleman does not openly work for pay, does he?
Sebastian
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