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“No; for instead of delivering myself up to the full enjoyment of them as others do, I am always troubling my head about how I could produce the same effect upon canvas; and as that can never be done, it is more vanity and vexation of spirit.”
― The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
― The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
“He never could have loved me, or he would not have resigned me so willingly”
― The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
― The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
“Loyalty and obedience to wisdom and justice are fine; but it is still finer to defy arbitrary power, unjustly and cruelly used--not on behalf of ourselves, but on behalf of others more helpless.”
― North and South
― North and South
“But, Polly, a principle that can't bear being laughed at, frowned on, and cold-shouldered, isn't worthy of the name.”
― An Old-Fashioned Girl
― An Old-Fashioned Girl
“I imagine there must be only a very, very few men in the world, that I should like to marry; and of those few, it is ten to one I may never be acquainted with one; or if I should, it is twenty to one he may not happen to be single, or to take a fancy to me.”
― The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
― The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Miranda’s 2024 Year in Books
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