Bessy Quotes

“I only mean, Bessy, there's good and bad in everything in this world; and as you felt the bad up here, I thought it was but fair you should know the bad down there.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South

“Fools will always break out o' bounds.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South

“God is just, and our lots are well portioned out by Him, although none but He knows the bitterness of our souls.

Margaret to Bessy re: trials & burdens we all carry”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South