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> “He likes me. I know he likes me. Of course I flatter him dreadfully. I find a strange pleasure in saying things to him that I know I shall be sorry for having said. As a rule, he is charming to me, and we sit in the studio and talk of a thousand things.”

> “Now and then, however, he is horribly thoughtless, and seems to take a real delight in giving me pain. Then I feel that I have given away my whole soul to some one who treats it as if it were a flower to put in his coat, a bit of decoration to charm his vanity, an ornament for a summer’s day.”

> - The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde

My favorite line of Basil talking about Dorian which perfectly fits my headcannon of how Barnabas would describe Jonah…