just a stranger

For anyone who has ever feared, they won’t find true love.

Then it hit her, not a feeling but a thought—a sharp, fragmented one. She had something important to tell someone.

Whoever said the truth hurts was being an optimist. The truth is an excruciatingly painful son of a bitch.

" if the world has not prepared a place for you, you must take up a hammer and chisel and carve one out for yourself."

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

“Wuthering” being a significant provincial adjective, descriptive of the atmospheric tumult to which its station is exposed in stormy weather.

“Because you’re like a story that hasn’t happened yet. Because I want to see what you will do. I want to be part of the unfolding of the tale.”

Put me in a room with a bunch of English people, and I’d walk out with a British accent. It wasn’t intentional—I’d just spent a lot of time over the years getting inside other people’s heads.

How little effort could I put in and still get an A? I wasn’t lazy. I was practical.

That crush of happiness, that feeling that this is what life’s about: being somewhere beautiful, with someone you love.