Elisabeth Terceiro

“I sow all sorts of seeds, and get no great harvest from any one of them. I am cursed with susceptibility in every direction, and effective faculty in none. I care for painting and music; I care for classic literature, and mediæval literature, and modern literature; I flutter all ways, and fly in none.”
― George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

“He is lying on his left side, in the fetal position, as if he is trying to get out of this world by the way he came in.”
― William Maxwell, So Long, See You Tomorrow

“And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch