North and South

It seemed as if she could dream her life away in such luxury of pensiveness, in which she made her present all in all, from not daring to think of the past, or wishing to contemplate the future.

• It is one of the great beauties of our system, that a working-man may raise himself into the power and position of a master by his own exertions and behaviour

A more proud, disagreeable girl I never saw. Even her great beauty is blotted out of one's memory by her scornful ways.

• If he were ruined by the strike, he would start life again, comforted by the conviction that those who brought it on were in a worse predicament than he himself,--for he had head as well as hands, while they had only hands.

He said to himself, that he hated Margaret, but a wild, sharp sensation of love cleft his dull, thunderous feeling like lightning, even as he shaped the words expressive of hatred... He loved her, and would love her; and defy her, and this miserable bodily pain.

• He had known what love was--a sharp pang, a fierce experience, in the midst of whose flames he was struggling! but, through that furnace he would fight his way out into the serenity of middle age,--all the richer and more human for having known this great passion.

Everywhere there is conflict and unkindness. I think god has forsaken this place, I believe I've seen hell and its white, its snow white.

• Any foolish passion on my part is entirely over, im looking to the future.

Precious Bane

• Not than Beguildy was wicked, but only empty of good

For she thought, in common with many people, that if there was anything wrong with the person’s outward seeming, there must be summat wrong with their mind as well.

• For when the heart is in stress, what is time? ...So four years went by, and though a deal happened out in the world, naught happened to us.

There are no looks in love, no outward seeming, no telling over of features. When you are but a moth in the candle of his eye, can you tell his stature, or if he be dark of fair?

• For it is the way of lovers to think that none can bless or succour their love but their own selves.

But when you dwell in a house you mislike, you will look out of window a deal more than those that are content with their dwelling.

• I never knew a mother’s love, nor yet a sister’s love, nor yet a sweetheart’s. But if I had, I should have forgot’em all three when you said those words to me, Prue Sarn!

Jane Eyre

"Mr. Rochester, if ever I did a good deed in my life--if ever I thought a good thought--if ever I prayed a sincere and blameless prayer--if ever I wished a righteous wish,--I am rewarded now. To be your wife is, for me, to be as happy as I can be on earth."

• “Go, then, Jane; go!” But he still retained my hand, and I could not free from it.

On recognizing him, the fang of the snake jealousy was instantly broken; because at the same moment my love for Celine sunk under an extinguisher. A woman who could betray me for such a rival was not worth containing for.

• "beauty is in the eye of the gazer. "My master's colourless, olive face, square, …were not beautiful, according to rule; but they were more than beautiful to me

Good-night, my--" He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me.

• Now I saw no bad. The sarcasm that had repelled, the harshness that had startled me once, were only like keen condiments in a choice dish: their presence was pungent, but their absence would be felt as comparatively insipid.

"What tale do you like best to hear?" "Oh, I have not much choice! They generally run on the same theme-- courtship; and promise to end in the same catastrophe--marriage."

• Presentiments are strange things! and so are sympathies; and so are signs; and the three combined make one mystery to which humanity has not yet found the key.

You-- you strange, you almost unearthly thing!--I love as my own flesh. You--poor and obscure, and small and plain as you are--I entreat to accept me as a husband."

• I believe she thought I had forgotten my station, and yours, sir." "Station! station!--your station is in my heart, and on the necks of those who would insult you, now or hereafter.--Go."

"After all, a single morning's interruption will not matter much," said he, "when I mean shortly to claim you--your thoughts, conversation, and company--for life."

Animal Farm

• Remove man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished forever.

To Kill a Mockingbird

"Because if Boo Radley killed them they´d miss school instead of vacations"

• But before I live with other folks i´ve got to live with myself

"Confident that you gentlemen would go along with them on the assumption-the evil assumption-that all Negroes lie, that all Negroes are basically immoral beings, that all Negro men are not to be trusted around our women, an assumption one associates with minds of their caliber.

• One time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them.

"There wasn’t much else left for us to learn, except possibly algebra. Besides, nothin´s real scary except in books."

• It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.

"As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it - whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash"

• I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks

"He went through a brief Egyptian Period that baffled me - Jem said they accomplished more than the Americans ever did, they invented toilet paper and perpetual embalming, and asked where would we be today if they hadn't?"

• Children are children, but they can spot an evasion quicker than adults, and evasion simply muddles 'em.

"When Aunt Alexandra went to school, self-doubt could not be found in any textbook, so she knew not its meaning."

Peter Pan

• To die will be an awfully big adventure.

"I just want always to be a little boy and to have fun."

• Never was luck on a pirate ship with a woman aboard.

"I am youth, i'm joy, i`m a little bird that has broken out of the egg".

• I don`t want to go to school and learn solemn things. No one is going to catch me, lady, and make me a man. I want always to be a little boy and to have fun.

"To live would be an awfully big adventure".