“Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation."
"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.”
― Jane Eyre
"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.”
― Jane Eyre
“Once, in my father's bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those first images, the echo of words we think we have left behind, accompany us throughout our lives and sculpt a palace in our memory to which, sooner or later—no matter how many books we read, how many worlds we discover, or how much we learn or forget—we will return.”
― The Shadow of the Wind
― The Shadow of the Wind
“Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.”
― Beach Music
― Beach Music
“Life's got to be lived, no matter how long or short. You got to take what comes.”
― Tuck Everlasting
― Tuck Everlasting
“Fantasy is one of the soul's brighter porcelains.”
― Beach Music
― Beach Music
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