but curiosity is a restless and scrupulous passion, and no one girl can endure, with patience, that hers should be baffled by another.
Joseph Sheridan Le FanuOld persons are sometimes as unwilling to die as tired-out children are to say good night and go to bed.
Joseph Sheridan Le FanuYou are afraid to die?' Yes, everyone is.' But to die as lovers may - to die together, so that they may live together. Girls are caterpillars when they live in the world, to be finally butterflies when the summer comes; but in the meantime there are grubs and larvae, don't you see - each with their peculiar propensities, necessities and structures.
Joseph Sheridan Le FanuWhat a fool I was! and yet, in the sight of angels, are we any wiser as we grow older? It seems to me, only, that our illusions change as we go on; but, still, we are madmen all the same.
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu