Gretchen

“Next to the lightest heart, the heaviest is apt to be most playful.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables

“All through dinner, Flora combined her present appetite for eating and drinking with her past appetite for romantic love, in a way that made Clennam afraid to lift his eyes from his plate; since he could not look towards her without receiving some glance of mysterious meaning or warning, as if they were engaged in a plot.”
― Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit

“On such a Sabbath morn, were we pure enough to be its medium, we should be conscious of the earth's natural worship ascending through our frames, on whatever spot of ground we stood.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables

“The words you speak become the house you live in.”
― Hafiz