“I am no faint-heart when it comes to the unpleasant truth. Indeed I have always taken a bracing sort of pleasure in facing it.”
“We always think we know what we want: when in truth there is nothing we are less likely to know.”
“I am all or nothing”
“You can greet even the dullest acquaintance with pleasure, if you have forgotten their dreary story.”
“I am afraid I shall disappoint people's expectations dreadfully.”
“I can always forgive where I understand.”
“I have been run over by the speeding chariot of fate, caught up in its spiked wheels." - "I hate it when that happens," said Stephen.”