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“When one writes a novel about grown people, he knows exactly where to stop - that is, with a marriage; but when he writes about juveniles, he must stop where he best can.”
― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

“As to your sister Brunette, she became so wicked, so insupportable, that the king hastened to give her in marriage last year to the prince Violent, who charged himself with the duty of reforming the character of the cruel and envious princess Brunette. The prince was stern and harsh. Brunette saw that her wicked heart prevented her from being happy and she commenced trying to correct her faults.”
― Comtesse de Ségur

“People say that celebrities stop developing emotionally at the age of their success—which for Tom had been with Risky Business at twenty-one.”
― Leah Remini, Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology

“And then Gwalchmai said, ‘No one should distract an ordained knight from his thoughts in a discourteous way, for perhaps he has either suffered a loss or he is thinking about the woman he loves best.”
― Sioned Davies, The Mabinogion