Chapter 21 Quotes

“God surely did not create us, and cause us to live, with the sole end of wishing always to die. I believe, in my heart, we were intended to prize life and enjoy it, so long as we retain it. Existence never was originally meant to be that useless, blank, pale, slow-trailing thing it often becomes to many, and is becoming to me, among the rest.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Shirley

“The sound of distant breakers made her heart ache with melancholy. She was in the mood when the sea has a saddening effect upon the nerves. It is only when we are very happy that we can bear to gaze merrily upon the vast and limitless expanse of water, rolling on and on with such persistent, irritating monotony to the accompaniment of our thoughts, whether grave or gay. When they are gay, the waves echo their gaiety; but when they are sad, then every breaker, as it rolls, seems to bring additional sadness and to speak to us of hopelessness and of the pettiness of all our joys.”
― Baroness Emmuska Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel

“What's the point of all this magic, if no one really knows how to use it? But I guess the same could be said about life. Which is another form of magic, only less showy.”
― David Levithan

“Victory, most fickle of friends.”
-Taghreb saying”
― ErraticErrata, So You Want to Be a Villain?

“He wondered what his best friend would think of that, to have gained a friendship even after death.”
― Anela Deen, In the Jaded Grove

“She stared at me. I had never realized before the vivid blue of her eyes.”
― Agatha Christie, Crooked House

“Yet, even though he himself escaped unscathed, it was nevertheless defeat.”
― Agatha Christie, Destination Unknown

“Quería una relación, tan solo una, que fuera simple.”
― Kiersten White, The Guinevere Deception

“She rose and smoothed her hair, which was as usual so extremely smooth that it seemed to be made of one piece with her head and covered with varnish.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“The princess smiled as people do who think they know more about the subject under discussion than those they are talking with.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace