Quotations
"Besides, doesn't everybody know that it doesn't make a mite of difference how a love-letter is spelled?" -L.M. Montgomery, Magic for Marigold
"…but her Letters were always unsatisfactory, and though she did not openly avow her feelings, yet every line proved her to be Unhappy." -Jane Austen, "Catharine, or the Bower"
"'Letters are no matter of indifference; they are generally a very positive curse.'" -Jane Austen, Emma
"Every body at all addicted to letter writing, without having much to say, which will include a large proportion of the female world at least…" -Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
"'Every body allows that the talent of writing agreeable letters is peculiarly female.'" -Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
"…as if letters couldn't lie. But Philip knew better than that, sprawling his thanks across a page to Aunt Alice who had given him a teddy bear he was too old for. Letter could lie all right, but they made the lie permanent. They lay as evidence against you: they made you meaner than the spoken word." -Graham Greene, "The Basement Room"
"Letters, like compilation tapes, were really vehicles for unexpressed emotions…" -David Nicholls, One Day
"John Donne said more than kisses, letters mingle souls and so they do…" -Zadie Smith, White Teeth
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