Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lady Audley's Secret Quotes
Surely a pretty woman never looks prettier than when making tea.
Phoebe Marks was a person who never lost her individuality. Silent and self-contained, she seemed to hold herself within herself, and take no colour from the outer world.
. . . and he knew that our dreams are none the less terrible to lose, because they have never been the realities for which we have mistaken them.
. . . when the horror of his grief was new to him, and every object in life, however trifling or however important, seem saturated with his one great sorrow.