Bernadette

“The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.”
― George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)

“But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.”
― George Eliot