Ruth by Elizabeth Gaskell
“She feared that she loved her child too much yet could not, would not, love him less,”
“She feared that she loved her child too much yet could not, would not, love him less,”
“It must be very improper that a young lady should dream of a gentleman before the gentleman is known to have dreamt of her,”
“The smell isn’t too bad once you get used to it,”
“He must be one of those bisexual people, I thought,”
“I had long wanted to marvel at the intricacies of the male body, but there was no time,”
“It’s a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife,”
“I’m jealous of everything that does not die,”
“Be sure don’t let people’s telling you, you are pretty, puff you up; for you did not make yourself, and so can have no praise due to you for it. It is virtue and goodness only, that make the true beauty.”
“Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need – a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two,“
“Be a man!… What good is religion if it collapses under calamity? Think of what earthquakes and floods, wars and volcanoes, have done before to men! Did you think that God had exempted [us]? He is not an insurance agent.”