Shelly > Shelly's Quotes

“I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.”
― Jane Austen, Jane Austen's Letters

“To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“Every true genius is bound to be naive.”
― Friedrich Schiller

“And each book has to receive your best effort every single time. No slacking.
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― Nora Roberts