Emma

“When God gives a blessing to be enjoyed, He gives it with a duty to be done.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Barton

“In all the world I have no one but you. Help me to follow you, even though it seems impossible. Help me to trust you as much as I long to love you.”
― Hannah Hurnard, Hinds Feet on High Places

“She was a pretty girl, and I was moved by her prettiness. Her hair was brown at the verge of red, and curly. Her face was still a little freckled. But it was her eyes that most impressed me. They were nearly black and had a liquid luster. The brief, laughing look that she had given me made me feel extraordinarily seen, as if after that I might be visible in the dark.”
― Wendell Berry, Jayber Crow

“Our life is March weather, savage and serene in one hour.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Complete Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson