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Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters QUOTES

Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters QUOTES

1 " It must be that there is something in the hearts of human beings, some natural fluid perhaps, that insists on happiness, even confronted with the most powerful arguments against it. "

― Ben H. Winters , Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters

2 " Beautifully indeed! But she does everything well. Have you seen her peel a banana? It is like listening to a symphony. "

― Ben H. Winters , Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters

3 " She was reserved and cold, as if having been stolen from her native village in a burlap sack and made to be servant and helpmate to an Englishman many years her senior, for some reasons sat poorly with her. "

― Ben H. Winters , Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters

4 " Lady Middleton piqued herself upon the elegance and extravagance of her table, and all her domestic arrangements; she loved to surprise English visitors with displays of hospitality native to her homeland, such as flavouring her soups with monkey urine and not telling anyone she had done so until the bowl had been drained. "

― Ben H. Winters , Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters

5 " Such an evening I ran away as soon as I could, but not before I had seen Marianne’s sweet face as white as death. That was the last, last look I ever had of her—the last manner in which she appeared to me. It was a horrid sight? Among many horrid sights from that evening, it was the most horrid of all! Yet when I thought of her to-day as really dying—of malaria, and yellow fever, and lupus-“
“No, not lupus.”
“Really? Well, that’s good. "

― Ben H. Winters , Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters