"My attraction had been immediate and profound. And it had nothing to do with the way he looked. My attraction was to what resided between his lines."

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She also considered very seriously what she would look like in a little cottage in the middle of the forest, dressed in a melancholy gray and holding communion only with the birds and trees; a life of retirement away from the vain world; a life into which no man came. It had its attractions, but she decided that gray did not suit her.

— A. A. Milne