Starr

“You don't need luck. You are powerful, clever, and fearless.”
― Shannon Hale, The Unfairest of Them All

“She had always observed that she got on better with clever women than silly ones like herself; the silly ones could never understand her wisdom; whereas the clever ones - the really clever ones - always understood her silliness.”
― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

“Our battle of wills would never be complete. But there was no battle worth fighting if it would tear us apart.”
― Robert P. Rowe, Second-Story Man

“The great tragic love story of Percy and me is neither great nor truly a love story, and is tragic only for its single-sidedness. It is also not an epic monolith that has plagued me since boyhood, as might be expected. Rather, it is simply the tale of how two people can be important to each other their whole lives, and then, one morning, quite without meaning to, one of them wakes to find that importance has been magnified into a sudden and intense desire to put his tongue in the other's mouth.
A long, slow slide, then a sudden impact.”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue