“But to be quite oneself one must first waste a little time.”

“Solitary and farouche people don't have relationships; they are quite unrelatable.”

“She thought she need not worry about her youth; it wasted itself spontaneously, like sunshine elsewhere or firelight in an empty room.”

“...there must be something she wanted; and that therefore she was no lady.”

“You must show him your monkey: I am sure he will like that.”

“She had one of those charming faces which, according to the angle from which you see them, look either melancholy or impertinent. Her eyes were grey; her trick of narrowing them made her seem to reflect, the greater part of the time, in the dusk of her second thoughts. With that mood, that touch of arriere pensee, went an uncertain, speaking set of lips.”

“Reason can never reconcile one to life: nothing allays the wants one cannot explain.”