Status Updates From The Portrait of a Lady

'The real offence, as she ultimately perceived, was her having a mind of her own at all.'

'She was admirably finished; she had had the last touch; she was really a consummate piece. He thought of her in amorous meditation a good deal as he might have thought of a Dresden-china shepherdess.'

this book is like dragging a corpse through molasses up a mountain with a vertical ascent. i read this on the bus when i know someone is looking over my shoulder to look smart

'She has only one fault.'
'What's that?'
'Too many ideas.'

'You're capable of anything, you and Osmond... together you're dangerous - like some chemical combination.'

"The Countess was very good company and not at all the featherhead she seemed; all one had to do with her was to observe the simple condition of not believing a word she said."

‘some people don’t like a moat, you know. good-bye.’ i’m on the verge of tears