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life for some goes smoothly, as free from incident as it is perhaps from poetry; a fainter kind of happiness than Less has ever perceived. We are all having different experiences.
Andrew Sean Greer • Less Is Lost (The Arthur Less Books Book 2)
Little as Catherine was in the habit of judging for her self, and unfixed as were her general notions of what men ought to be, she could not entirely repress a doubt, while she bore with the effusions of his endless conceit, of his being altogether completely agreeable.
David M. Shapard • The Annotated Northanger Abbey
to love her in his company, than out of it.
Sarah Waters • Tipping the Velvet: A Novel
To point out other people’s errors was a duty that Mr Bulstrode rarely shrank from,
Rosemary Ashton • Middlemarch
the more we know someone, the more we shut the doors between us—not the other way around.
André Aciman • Find Me: A TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
by not planning to keep things alive, we were avoiding the prospect that they might ever die.
André Aciman • Call Me by Your Name
“Maybe what you need is less pride and more courage. Pride is the nickname we give fear.
André Aciman • Find Me: A TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
Besides, he was a likeable man: sweet-tempered, ready-witted, frank, without grins of suppressed bitterness or other conversational flavours which make half of us an affliction to our friends.