1. “I would love you if you were covered with prickles and sackcloth; but how glad I am that your lovely outside bespeaks your nature — so clean and proud and fine.”

    — 

    Sylvia Townsend Warner to Valentine Ackland, letter dated August 21st, 1931

    Read the longer quote from which this excerpt is taken, here.

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