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Viola imposed upon her lover but a short probation. They were married, as was becoming, with great privacy, – almost with secrecy, – in the hope perhaps, as was waggishly remarked at the time, that the late Mrs Lloyd wouldn’t hear of it.
Susie Boyt • The Turn of the Screw and Other Ghost Stories
For all kinds of social purposes he has the calculable orbit of the man in the caste or the servile state; but in the story of his own soul he is still pursuing, at great peril, his own adventure.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
‘je suis un Anglais, pauvre, très pauvre.’
Graham Greene • The Quiet American
A pale man with pince-nez, he had the kind of face it is impossible to recall within five minutes of seeing it, and owed his appointment to the fact that all the other candidates for the Vice Chancellorship had enough personality to acquire enemies.
Eva Ibbotson • The Morning Gift
Montaigne’s essay on death
Irvin D. Yalom • When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel Of Obsession
a flawed, conflicted hero goes on a journey to become whole,
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
Perhaps there’ll be a disaster, Carleton had said; and Thomas felt again the blow of the hooded creature fleeing Bethesda with paint on its hands. But that had been no disaster, only something strange and soon forgotten in the order and quiet of his home – so Thomas, who had a gift for self-persuasion, placidly ate a radish.