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“A man vows, and yet will not cast away the means of breaking his vow. Is it that he distinctly means to break it? Not at all; but the desires which tend to break it are at work in him dimly, and make their way into his imagination, and relax his muscles in the very moments when he is telling himself over again the reasons for his vow.” p708

Getting into it!

“The Imitation of the Rose”

- mental health, infertility, “seeing” versus “looking”, routine, orderliness

“I rob you of no good chance. As to speaking, I hold it a crime to expose a man’s sin unless I’m clear it must be done to save the innocent. That is my way of thinking, Mr. Bulstrode…” p696

“Love”
- women, purpose, domestic life

“Who can know how much of his most inward life is made up of the thoughts he believes other men to have about him, until that fabric of opinion is threatened with ruin?” p688

“And I can’t be happy in working with you, or profiting by you. It hurts my mind. I must beg you to seek another agent.” p695

“The Smallest Woman in the World”

- colonialism, dehumanisation, ownership

“he told himself that it was ten times harder for her than for him: he had a life away from home, and constant appeals to his activity on behalf of others.” p667

“He could not say “you are losing confoundedly, and are making everybody stare at you…” p673

“…that temptation in me - I am sure you know it. I am sure you know that the satisfaction of your affections stands in the way of mine.” p674

“Oh dear, yes; appearances have very little to do with happiness,” said Rosamund. p653

“Here was a case in which it could not be enough simply to disobey and be serenely, placidly obstinate….” p654

“…and make her indifferent to the absence of Will Ladislaw, towards whom she felt some resentment for his exaltation of Mrs. Casaubon.” p661

"It did not occur to him that Lydgate's marriage was not delightful." p640

"...if Fred wished her to invite Mary again she would make no objection, the children being so pleased with her." p643

"(Lydgate) knew as distinctly as possible that this was an offer of help to himself from Mr. Farebrother, and he could not bear it." p645

"The poor thing saw only that the world was not ordered to her liking..." p649

"But the voice of God
To mortal ear is dreadful...to God is no access
Without mediator" XII, 235-40

"Thus laws and rites
Established, such delight hath God in men
Obedient to his will" 244-6

"Whose foul idolatries, and other faults
Heaped.., will so incense
God, as to leave them, and expose their land." 337-9

"thy punishment
He shall endure by coming in the flesh
To a reproachful life and cursed death" 404-6

"I suppose one gets a habit of doing without happiness or hope." p633

""...in speaking to her so plainly; but still - it could not be fairly called wooing a woman to tell her that he would never woo her. It must be admitted to be a ghostly kind of wooing." p633

"...joy in the impression that it really was herself whom Will loved and was renouncing..." p 634

"...plodding along like a poor devil seeking..." p636

"But God who oft descends to visit men
Unseen, and through their habitations walks" XII, 48-9

"From reason, and to servitude reduce
Man till then free" 89-90

"will this latter, as the former world,
Still tend from bad to worse, till God at last
Wearied with their iniquities, withdraw
His presence from among them, and avert
His holy eyes" 105-9

"for life
To noble and ignoble is more sweet
Untrained in arms" 220-2

"Bulstrode became aware that one source of magnificent profit was the easy reception of any goods offered without strict inquiry as to where they came from." p616

"The daughter had been found; only one man besides Bulstrode knew it, and he was paid for keeping silence and carrying himself away." p617

"..a stain which I can't help. My mother felt it...It ought to lie with a man's self that he is a gentleman." p624