“Oh, the comfort — the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person — having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.”
― A Life For A Life
― A Life For A Life
“Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.”
― A Life For A Life
― A Life For A Life
“Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.”
― Impressions of Theophrastus Such
― Impressions of Theophrastus Such
“Had they been living in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Angelica would have been Jane Bennet and Eliza, Eliza.”
― Eliza Hamilton: The Extraordinary Life and Times of the Wife of Alexander Hamilton
― Eliza Hamilton: The Extraordinary Life and Times of the Wife of Alexander Hamilton
“How is it that the poets have said so many fine things about our first love, so few about our later love? Are their first poems their best? or are not those the best which come from their fuller thought, their larger experience, their deeper-rooted affections? The boy's flute-like voice has its own spring charm; but the man should yield a richer, deeper music.”
― Adam Bede
― Adam Bede
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