Nearly all novels are too long.
When I have eaten mangoes, I have felt like Eve.
Many persons read and like fiction. It does not tax the intelligence and the intelligence of most of us can so ill afford taxation that we rightly welcome any reading matter which avoids this.
Love's a disease. But curable.
It was a book to kill time for those who liked it better dead.
Did you ever look through a microscope at a drop of pond water? You see plenty of love there. All the amoebae getting married. I presume they think it very exciting and important. We don't.