From my literary adventures, I have selected the following quotes from authors and books which have made an impact on me and I just wanted to share them with you:
"One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!" (Middlemarch by George Eliot)
"I have now been married ten years. I know what it is to live entirely for and with what I love best on earth. I hold myself supremely blest—blest beyond what language can express; because I am my husband’s life as fully as he is mine" (Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte)
"Money is a needful and precious thing,—and, when well used, a noble thing,—but I never want you to think it is the first or only prize to strive for. I’d rather see you poor men’s wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queens on thrones, without self- respect and peace" (Little Women by Louisa M. Alcott)
"If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only" (Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
"Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts" (Charles Dickens)
Finally, this one rings a loud bell with me! "Do we not while away moments of inanity or fatigued waiting by repeating some trivial movement or sound, until the repetition has bred a want, which is incipient habit?" (Silas Marner by George Eliot). Although the internet is way after Eliot's time, I "while away [my] moments of....fatigued waiting] by surfing the net, which has unfortunately bred an "incipient habit". I am sure many of us can recognise the truth in Eliot's statement!
Take care,
Bella. x
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