Gretchen

“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

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

“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 mother is the most essential piece on the board, the one you must protect. Only she has the range. Only she can move in multiple directions. Once she's gone, it's a whole different game.”
― Kelly Corrigan, Glitter and Glue