Guy

“Thinking no more about it, he stepped off into that cool space, that fast descent to her, with nothing in his mind but a memory of a curve of her shoulder, naked, as he had never seen it.”
― Patricia Highsmith, This Sweet Sickness

“It seemed to me when I wrote The Life and Loves of a She-Devil that women were so much in the habit of being good it would do nobody any harm if they learned to be a little bad - that is to say, burn down their houses, give away their children, put their husband in prison, steal his money and turn themselves into their husband's mistress.”
― Fay Weldon

“There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.”
― Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers

“What is lovely never dies, but passes into other loveliness, Star-dust, or sea-foam, flower or winged air.”
― Thomas Bailey Aldrich