God forbid I should ever intend making a general apology for all novels!
“Enraptured by an aberration of beauty, I cannot move. I find myself helpless against a woman whose pale lips sing to me. Every note, every hymn that escapes those lips, I want to hear like a story being told to a child. I want to listen to its crinkled page as it turns, but more so, I desired this creature before me.”
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“Is it 'the cruellest cut of all' when you talk of infinite kindness, yet attribute such villainy to me?”
― The Love Letters of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning
― The Love Letters of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning
“& if some natures have to be refined by the sun, & some by the furnace (the less genial ones--) both means are to be recognized as good; . . . however different in pleasurableness & painfulness, & tho' furnace-fire leaves scorched streaks upon the fruit--.”
― The Love Letters of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning
― The Love Letters of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning
“I hope you'll never become so good at building walls that you can't see when they need to be pulled down.”
― Das Phantom: Die bisher ungeschriebene Lebensgeschichte des "Phantoms der Oper"
― Das Phantom: Die bisher ungeschriebene Lebensgeschichte des "Phantoms der Oper"
“My friend is not "mistrustful" of me, no, because she don't fear I shall make mainprize of the stray cloaks & umbrellas down-stairs, or turn an article for "Colburn's" on her sayings & doings up-stairs--but, spite of that, she does mistrust . . . so mistrust my common sense; nay, uncommon and dramatic-poet's sense, if I am put on asserting it!--all which pieces of mistrust I could detect, and catch struggling, and pin to death in a moment, and put a label on, with name, genus & species, just like a horrible entomologist; only I wo'n't, because the first visit of the North wind will carry the whole tribe into the Red Sea--and those horns and tails and scalewings are best forgotten altogether.”
― The Love Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning & Robert Browning: Enriched edition. Romantic Correspondence between two great poets of the Victorian era
― The Love Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning & Robert Browning: Enriched edition. Romantic Correspondence between two great poets of the Victorian era
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