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“For all his pain, he longed to see the author of it. Although he hated Margaret at times, when he thought of that gentle familiar attitude and all the attendant circumstances, he had a restless desire to renew her picture in his mind - a longing for the very atmosphere she breathed. He was in the Charybdis of passion, and must perforce circle and circle ever nearer round the fatal centre.”
― North and South
― North and South
“The best cure for sadness is doing something.”
― Sarah's Quilt
― Sarah's Quilt
“Education doesn't keep a person from being a fool, and the lack of it doesn't keep a person from being intelligent.”
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“It's not fair, men get to go off and chase around the country and get medals for doing stupid things and women get to sit home and worry.”
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“On some such night as this she remembered promising to herself to live as brave and noble a life as any heroine she ever read or heard of in romance, a life sans peur et sans reproche; it had seemed to her then that she had only to will, and such a life would be accomplished. And now she had learnt that not only to will, but also to pray, was a necessary condition in the truly heroic. Trusting to herself, she had fallen.”
― North and South
― North and South
Madi’s 2025 Year in Books
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