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“Edward lives as if there is no tomorrow, Richard as if he wants no tomorrow, and George as though someone should give it to him for free.”
― Philippa Gregory, The White Queen

“You can smile when your heart is breaking because you're a woman.”
― Philippa Gregory, The Other Boleyn Girl

“Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.”
― Confucius

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
― Leo Tolstoy , Anna Karenina

“I think... if it is true that
there are as many minds as there
are heads, then there are as many
kinds of love as there are hearts.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living. You said I killed you--haunt me then. The murdered do haunt their murderers. I believe--I know that ghosts have wandered the earth. Be with me always--take any form--drive me mad. Only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! It is unutterable! I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.”
― Daphne Du Maurier, Rebecca

“Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.”
― Daphne Du Maurier, Rebecca

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.”
― Arthur Rimbaud

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.”
― Daphne du Maurier

“If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.”
― Emily Jane Brontë , Wuthering Heights

“No sight so sad as that of a naughty child," he began, "especially a naughty little girl. Do you know where the wicked go after death?"

"They go to hell," was my ready and orthodox answer.

"And what is hell? Can you tell me that?"

"A pit full of fire."

"And should you like to fall into that pit, and to be burning there for ever?"

"No, sir."

"What must you do to avoid it?"

I deliberated a moment: my answer, when it did come was objectionable: "I must keep in good health and not die.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.”
― Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld, Maxims

“I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself”
― Simone de Beauvoir

“En Ma Fin Est Ma Commencement - In my end is my beginning.”
― Philippa Gregory, The Other Queen

“Any man in love with Cesare is already half in love with his sister. Now, when [Pedro Calderon] shuts his eyes, he cannot see anything else.”
― Sarah Dunant, Blood & Beauty

“There have been none like us before. And there will be none afterwards. Be careful what you write.”
― Sarah Dunant, Blood & Beauty

“One enemy at the time.”
― Sarah Dunant, Blood & Beauty

“I know I have but the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too.”
― Queen Elizabeth I

“I may not be a lion,but I am lions cub and I have lion's heart”
― Queen Elizabeth I

“God forgive you, but I never can.”
― Queen Elizabeth I

“Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.”
― Queen Elizabeth I

“It is hard to find beauty in the art of self expression.”
― Elizabeth I

“I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”
― Anne Tyler

“Ah, he has too many ideas, that man da Vinci. His mind works faster than his hands.”
― Sarah Dunant, Blood & Beauty