Cathy

“So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don’t use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys - to woo women - and, in that endeavor, laziness will not do. It also won’t do in your essays.”
― N.H. Kleinbaum, Dead Poets Society

“Now let us go, love, down the winding stair,
With fingers intertwined...”
― William Morris, The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems