“There would be no one there to live for her during those coming years; she would live for herself. There would be no powerful will bending hers in that blind persistance with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow-creature. A kind intention or a cruel intention made the act seem no less a crime as she looked upon it in that brief moment of illumination.”
― The Story of an Hour
― The Story of an Hour
“Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.”
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“It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
― Mrs. Goose, Her Book
― Mrs. Goose, Her Book
“The voice of the sea speaks to the soul.”
― The Awakening
― The Awakening
“A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity. It dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.
-The Last Seance (from The Hound of Death and Other Stories, also Double Sin and Other Stories)”
― The Hound of Death and Other Stories
-The Last Seance (from The Hound of Death and Other Stories, also Double Sin and Other Stories)”
― The Hound of Death and Other Stories
Ellie’s 2025 Year in Books
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