Sublime

own desirability and to one's own desire,

Lilla Cabot Perry,

Let him run his tongue over your strange land, taste only honey.

Shelley had lived for as long as she could remember in perpetual dread of being dislikeable – a fate even more terrible than being disliked, for it encompassed not only her relationships with others, but her private judgments of herself.

He has a kind, round face and the relaxed, easygoing manner of someone who’s spent most of his life in California.

Charles Eliot Norton,

“She had a great gift of finding out people’s interests and drawing them out.”