There is nothing more luxurious than eating while you read—unless it be reading while you eat. Amabel did both: they are not the same thing, as you will see if you think the matter over.

They would say, 'What are YOU eating?' ... And that's what they wanted. They said, 'We want to eat what you're eating.'

Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.

Reading is my greatest luxury.

So he caught her in his arms and kissed her, and they were very happy, and told each other what a beautiful world it was, and how wonderful it was that they should have found each other, seeing that the world is not only beautiful but rather large.

There are brown eyes in the world, after all, as well as blue, and one pair of brown that meant heaven to me as the blue had never done