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“Oh not goodbye!”…
“To be sure, it does seem a pity… but life, you know, is full of disappointments…” 🤭

“I told them not to wake you," Anna said, looking pointedly at Walek.
"Beggin' your pardon, milady, we figured he wouldn't have it that way!"
"Indeed!" Jan cried. "Indeed!" It was all he could manage for fear his own tears would start.
This is so indulgent yum yum 🧁

“ but my friend, life is subject to wounds which are incurable, and my life has been so wounded. I have not strength left me to make my heart whole enough to be worthy of your acceptance.” So honest!

“A man cannot wrap himself up and keep himself warm with an absent love as a woman does.”

“Her mouth and chin were (to quote Mr Franklin) morsels for the gods; and her complexion (on the same undeniable authority) was as warm as the sun itself, with this great advantage that it was always in nice order to look at.” I’m becoming a wilkie fan

“He had promised to be tall, and had not kept his promise.” 😆

“I have read a heap of books in my time…I express my opinion that such a book as Robinson Crusoe never was written, and never will be written again…I have found it my friend in all necessities…I have worn out six stout Robinson Crusoes with hard work in my service.” Cannot relate to the particular title but can to the sentiment.

“Men are not machines… they come alive at the possibility of romance and new life…provide and protect-and play.”

“Je le néglige trop. On ne rencontre cependant pas souvent des êtres aussi affectueux et aussi intelligents de l’art que celui là.”

“You thought to win by theft.” Omg he really is the devil

“Does it diminish me that I am only whole when you hold my heart? Then I will be diminished.”
John the Baptist is that you??

He visited my company-but there was nothing for him there 👎🏻

“Votre famille est arrivé ici… et elle est maintenant tout à fait la nôtre.” 🤎

Y’all I’m so excited you have no idea

“It was not the confident, laughing smile of the previous summer; rather, it was a tentative, uncertain smile, a smile steeped in sadness.” 🤕

“Do women stop dancing when they marry? Even when a husband is foolish enough to let her out of his sight?” GASP

“Have you been crying? Why?”
Anna had been in the stable for over an hour awaiting his return.”
So God the Father coded! Wanting to be found and acknowledged in our pain!

“Mr. Bertram Tallant…was blessed with a most elegant pair of legs… [and] cherished in one of his chests of drawers a pair of yellow pantaloons, which he had not yet dared to display to his Papa, but which, he rather fancied, turned him into a veritable Tulip of Fashion.” 🌷✨ and I was thinking I wouldn’t like this book!

“Lady Cadbury, having finished her third letter, threw herself back on her chair, and for a moment or two closed her eyes, as though about to rest. But she soon remembered that the activity of her life did not admit of such rest. She therefore…scribbled…” I scream

“There will be no blood today.”
“Optimistic sir, very optimistic. I salute you…my master has no flaws…save a sometimes questionable taste in companions.” 95
What in the Samwise Gamgee

“Vincent had spent one frenzied week in August painting the Sunflowers series for which he is so famous…all for Gauguin. All composed of complementary colours. To hang in Gauguin’s room like a huge welcoming bouquet, as he wrote to Theo.” Such wholesome generosity!! Inspirational! How can I be over the top generous like that? 💗🌻

“What a romantic that man is! St. George in tweed; I do adore him.”

“Oh dear! How very unfortunate it is of Ella to refuse good Fritz of Baden… & FOR A RUSSIAN!” I can’t forgive Queen Victoria for the famine but she’s iconic.

He knew how she would love. He had not loved her without gaining that instinctive knowledge…her soul would walk in glorious sunlight if any man was worthy…” ☀️

“His heart beat thick at the thought of her coming.” So relatable

If they came…wanting sympathy in a… trouble like the present, then they would be felt as a shadow in all these houses of intimate acquaintances, not friends. London life is too whirling and full to admit of even an hour of that deep silence of feeling which the friends of Job showed, when 'they sat with him on the ground seven days …and none spake a word unto him; for they saw that his grief was… great.’

“Edith had rolled herself up into a soft ball of muslin and ribbon, and silken curls, and gone off into a peaceful little after-dinner nap. 😴 🤎

Guys I made the fatal error of watching north and south again and now other books pale 😩 I’ve had enough of muscles and condescending remarks from lesser leading men, give me hardworking, steadfast, heart of gold John Thornton!

“Konstantin agonized. He was a profoundly introspective man and a year passed in which he failed to write to Elizabeth as promised, though he wrote poems about her; then he returned to propose marriage.” !!!

Already slays ✨