„She’d cried loudly enough that the man sitting across from her had offered her a tissue, and she’d screamed, what do you think you’re looking at jerk? At him, because that was what you did in New York. After that she felt a little better.“

— Cassandra Clare

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„She said out of pity for him, "I shall give you a kiss if you like," but though he once knew, he had long forgotten what kisses are, and he replied, "Thank you," and held out his hand, thinking she had offered to put something into it. This was a great shock to her, but she felt she could not explain without shaming him, so with charming delicacy she gave Peter a thimble which happened to be in her pocket, and pretended that it was a kiss.“
— J. M. Barrie
„Peter would think her sentimental. So she was. For she had come to feel that it was the only thing worth saying – what one felt. Cleverness was silly. One must say simply what one felt.“
— Virginia Woolf
„Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.“
— H.L. Mencken