Victorian Quotes
I think I would like to be in Victorian times. Small town. Bandstands. Summer. That kind of thing. Without disease.
Even in name, he seems like a Victorian oddity. "Igor, fetch 'the Crouch' from the catacombs, we're going to the graveyard".
I collect Victorian automata and coming across them in the dark does give you a little shudder.
The pagan gods are not dead, but can return to topple science with superstition and modern man with besti*l pleasures that pre-date civilisation.
Company, you see - company is - is - it's a very different thing from solitude - an't it?
My wishing star glowed slightly and winked back at me. I could almost hear its voice, tinkling like wind chimes and church bells, reassuring me that everything would return to normal.
Making friends is not a big deal. Replacing me with them after talking to them for only one bloody day is a big deal.
Maybe I was wrong. Maybe there really is some goodness here in our world. But if goodness existed, that must mean that darkness existed as well.
He is only fifteen! Does she really think he is prepared for marriage, especially with his intellectual range of a teacup?
But what if Oscar—” “Breathes fire and threatens to cook you over a grill?” “I was thinking what if he gets mad, but I think your way works as well.” “Then you shall make for a tasty meal.
I’m an idiot for trying to avoid these feelings because they have caused me pain in the past.
I've come back for you, my love, my life. Let me look at you, keep you, never let go of you.
Like herbs in a pestle, life steadily ground out the essence of those who did not have access to comforts.
We men had a meeting a long time ago, and we all decided, 'It's trousers'. And that's what we've worn ever since.
The first time you went out, you became mixed up with a group of radical political terrorists.”“That could have happened to anyone!
You’re not worried about being compromised, are you?” he asked. “Because I’ve already done that.
I'm accustomed to reading Georgian and Victorian letters and sometimes you simply know in your gut that a blithe sentence is covering up a deeper emotion.
I can't tell you how terribly glad I am that you're going to be all right, " George said, rather thickly. "I...I wouldn't know how to act without a twin.
She was merely an actress who had been forced to perform her part on stage without fully knowing her lines. She was not real.
We laughed as we ducked behind a pile of snow. Then our brothers came charging through the barrier, sending the four of us sliding down a white slope full of cherished memories.
I opened my eyes and watched the water stream past me. I let out some of my air and gazed at the cascade of silver bubbles dancing up to the surface.
The odd was the ordinary at Alistair Grim's. The people who lived there were odd. The things they did there were odd. Even the there itself there was odd.
Some ghosts are so quiet you would hardly know they were there.
Enlarged sympathy with children was one of the chief contributions made by the Victorian English to real civilization.
He was moderately truthful towards men, but to women lied like a Cretan-a system of ethics above all others calculated to win popularity at the first flush of admission into lively society.
the whole of Victorian literature done up in grey paper & neatly tied with string
The Victorian era was perhaps the last point in Western history when magic and science were allowed to coexist.
I should have looked into my own heart, and found this new growth springing up there, and plucked it out while it was young.
Sometimes people do misguided things for the most honorable of reasons.
You are an exceedingly beautiful mystery, one that intrigues me and one that I plan to solve.
He had an overwhelming urge to take possession of her lips, silencing any mention of another man’s name.
Humans are curious creatures. What we cannot see, our logical minds will try to deny.
That August, Elodie Selkirk became the latest lady in Paris to order a coin-operated boy.
The Victorians lost a few workers in everything they built, rather like a votive offering.
I AM the current curator of the black trunk and the stories it holds within.
Matt is a tortured soul, ' Amanda insisted. 'He's Heathcliff and you're Cathy. He's Rochester and you're Jane Eyre. He's-''Darcy and I'm Elizabeth. I get it. And you're wrong.
You make me burn with life, and yearn to set aside my cold and distant, solitary ways.
I would feel much better about this whole affair if you would slap me and get it over with. I know you want to.
One character all messages had in common was vague generality. "Fly away with me, " a tussie-mussie might suggest, but never "Meet me at the railway depot at six-thirty.
Oh, man, " said Jack. "Everyone was nice to us when we looked rich. Now it feels like the whole world's against us.
With a heart of furious fanciesWhereof I am commander:With a burning spear, And a horse of air, To the wilderness I wander...
The boy with the haunted eyes was Dory's secret. Eli. And she knew that she had to see him again.
There's a bit of a local legend about a jet heart that has turned up over the years, " Flynn said. "Any time it turns up, strange things happen.
A black pendant in the shape of a heart lay in her hand. It was carved with roses and strung onto a velvet cord.