" Julia understood perfectly and was not sorry to be banished, for she was half-way through Villette, which she had found on Uncle Randal’s shelves. Lucy Snowe was annoying, of course (Julia would have liked to take her and shake her and tell her not to be a silly little ass), but all the same she was so enthralled by the creature’s misadventures that it was difficult to put the book down. "

― D.E. Stevenson , The Blue Sapphire