“Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time.”
― The Devil and Miss Prym
― The Devil and Miss Prym
“A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.”
― Tess of the D'Urbervilles: Classic Collection
― Tess of the D'Urbervilles: Classic Collection
“Oh, Mr. Thornton, I am not good enough!'
'Not good enough! Don't mock my own deep feeling of unworthiness.”
― North and South
'Not good enough! Don't mock my own deep feeling of unworthiness.”
― North and South
“He sank into the rocking chair, the same one in which Rebecca had sat during the early days of the house to give embroidery lessons, and in which Amaranta had played Chinese checkers with Colonel Gerineldo Marquez, and in which Amarana Ursula had sewn the tiny clothing for the child, and in that flash of lucidity he became aware that he was unable to bear in his soul the crushing weight of so much past.”
― One Hundred Years of Solitude
― One Hundred Years of Solitude
“But the cloud never comes in that quarter of the horizon
from which we watch for it.”
― North and South
from which we watch for it.”
― North and South
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