Charlotte Brontë, Shirley Quotes
Strange that grief should now almost choke me, because another human being's eye has failed to greet mine.
Having a large world of his own in his own head and heart, he tolerated confinement to a small, still corner of the real world very patiently.
. . . they would neither hate nor envy us if they did not deem us so much happier than themselves.
He did not yet known how many commenced lefe-romances are doomed never to get beyond the first, or at most the second chapter.
Existence was never originally meant to be that useless, blank, pale, slow-trailing thing it often becomes to many, and is becoming to me among the rest.
I will bestir myself, ' was her resolution, 'and try to be wise if I cannot be good.
His mind has the clearness of the deep sea, the patience of its rocks, the force of its billows.
. . . nobody in particular is to blame, that I can see, for the state in which things are . . .