34 quotes found
“You are mine, you shall be mine, you and I are one for ever.”
“If your dear heart is wounded, my wild heart bleeds with yours.”
“But to die as lovers may - to die together, so that they may live together.”
“You must come with me, loving me, to death; or else hate me, and still come with me.”
“Nevertheless, life and death are mysterious states, and we know little of the resources of either.”
“(...) and I tell you, Austin Ruthyn, if you won't look about and marry somebody, somebody may possibly marry you.”
“You will think me cruel, very selfish, but love is always selfish; the more ardent the more selfish. How jealous I am you cannot know. You must come with me, loving me, to death; or else hate me, a...”
“I have often wondered since at my own firmness. In that dreadful interview with my uncle I had felt, in the whirl and horror of my mind, on the very point of submitting, just as nervous people are ...”
“I had first thought of Milly's absurdities, to which, in description, I cannot do justice, simply because so many details have, by distance of time, escaped my recollection. But her ways and her ta...”
“You are afraid to die?'Yes, everyone is.'But to die as lovers may - to die together, so that they may live together. Girls are caterpillars when they live in the world, to be finally butterflies wh...”
“Places change imperceptibly in detail, at least a good deal,' said the Doctor, making an effort to keep up a conversation that plainly would not go on itself; 'and people too; population shifts ...”
“Thus fortified I might take my rest in peace. But dreams come through stone walls, light up dark rooms, or darken light ones, and their persons make their exists and their entrances as they please,...”
“You will do well to take advantage of Madame's short residence to get up your French a little... You will be glad of this, my dear, when you have reached France, where you will find they speak noth...”
“In my time first cousins did not meet like strangers. But we are learning modesty from the Americans, and old English ways are too gross for us.”
“Although I felt very weak, I did not feel ill; and strength, one always fancies, is a thing that may be picked up when we please.”
“Have not women preferred hatred to indifference, and the reputation of witchcraft, with all its penalties, to absolute insignificance?”
“I am afraid we women are factionists; we always take a side, and nature has formed us for advocates rather than judges.”
“How marvellously lie our anxieties, in filmy layers, one over the other! Take away that which has lain on the upper surface for so longthe care of caresthe only one, as it seemed to you, between yo...”
“There is a faculty in man that will acknowledge the unseen. He may scout and scare religion from him; but if he does, superstition perches near.”
“For some nights I slept profoundly; but still every morning I felt the same lassitude, and a languor weighed upon me all day. I felt myself a changed girl. A strange melancholy was stealing over me...”
“I remember everything about itwith an effort. I see it all, as divers see what is going on above them, through a medium, dense, rippling, but transparent.”
“Jusging by the sour glance she threw on me as she said this, I concluded that I represented those 'late changes' to which all the sorrows of the house were referred. I felt unhappy under the ill-wi...”
