“Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?”

Source: The Book of Atrix Wolfe

Reality
Source: I am That, P.188.

Quote, Grace personified: Waheeda Rehman

Guardian interview (2008)

Preface, 2nd edition (22 July 1848)
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)
Context: I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the author may be. All novels are, or should be, written for both men and women to read, and I am at loss to conceive how a man should permit himself to write anything that would be really disgraceful to a woman, or why a woman should be censured for writing anything that would be proper and becoming for a man.

From the ninth book, "The Book of Secrets"
The Pillow Book

How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!
Emma (1815)
Works, Emma