Ladiibbug

“I'm poor too, so I can't give you any money. But if you're not fussy I can provide your feed for you."
"What?"
"Oh sorry. It's the first time I have kept an animal at home, so it feels like having a pet, you see.”
― Sayaka Murata, Convenience Store Woman

“I said, "Sometimes people do things to you that you can't do anything about. You just have to survive it and go on.”
― Martha Wells, Artificial Condition

“I plead your cause? What the devil gave you the notion that I plead any causes but my own? Believe me, it's wide of the mark!"
"You can't be such a - such a care-for-nobody as to refuse to lift as much as a finger to assist me!" said Stacy indignantly.
"Oh you're quite mistaken! I am precisely such a care-for-nobody.”
― Georgette Heyer, Black Sheep

“You are too romantic! We have been dwelling in Arcadia my green girl: the rest of the world is not so golden as this retired spot. Only in fantasy does every circumstance conspire to make it inevitable that two people should fall in love! We should hardly have been more isolated had be been cast on a desert island together.”
― Georgette Heyer, Venetia