Grace

“I can resist anything except temptation.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“I’m not short. I’m…vertically disadvantaged.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Scandal in Spring

“Yelling is a sign of desperation, an indication that you’re out of options, with nothing behind your back but volume.”
― Emma Chase, Sustained

“You don't care what people think," he said.

She couldn't tell from the way he emphasized the words if he was asking a question or making an observation. Still, she felt obliged to answer.
"Of course I care. To a certain extent we all care, but we can't care to the point that we live in fear of others' opinion, that we allow them to change who we are. We must be willing to stand up and defend what represents the very core of our being. Otherwise what is the purpose of individuality? We'd be nothing but imitations of each other, and I daresay we'd all be rather boring.”
― Lorraine Heath, In Bed with the Devil