“Life, he realize, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it's in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile.”
― The Last Song
― The Last Song
“Are you hero enough to unite yourself to one whom you know to be suspected and despised by all around you, and identify your interests and your honor with hers?”
― The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Volume I
― The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Volume I
“I wished to tell the truth, for truth always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive it.”
― The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Volume I
― The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Volume I
“To represent a bad thing in its least offensive light is, doubtless, the most agreeable course for a writer of fiction to pursue; but is it the most honest, or the safest? Is it better to reveal the snares and pitfalls of like to the young and thoughtless traveller, or to cover them with branches and flowers? Oh, reader! if there were less of this delicate concealment of facts--this whispering "Peace, peace," when there is no peace, there would be less of sin and misery to the young of both sexes who are left to wring their bitter knowledge from experience.”
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