Helen

“My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn.”
― Louis Adamic

“O Aristotle! if you had had the advantage of being "the freshest modern" instead of the greatest ancient, would you not have mingled your praise of metaphorical speech, as a sign of high intelligence, with a lamentation that intelligence so rarely shows itself in speech without metaphor,–that we can so seldom declare what a thing is, except by saying it is something else?”
― George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

“Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.”
― George Eliot, Silas Marner

“The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch