• "The nourishment of the people is a good object; to massacre them is a bad means."
  • Les Misérables.

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• "Is this my pale little elf? Is this my mustard-seed? This little sunny-faced girl, with the dimpled cheek and rosy lips; the satin-smooth hazel hair, and the radiant hazel eyes?"
  • Mr. Rochester, Jane Eyre.

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• "I saw them smile, laugh - it was nothing; the light of the candles had as much soul in it as their smile; the tinkle of the bell as much significance as their laugh. I saw Mr. Rochester smile - his stern features softened; his eye grew both brilliant and gentle, its ray both searching and sweet."
  • Jane, Jane Eyre.

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• "I shall be as dirty as I please: and I like to be dirty, and I will be dirty."
  • Heathcliff, Wuthering Heights.

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• "He had long, quivering fingers as agile and restless as the antennae of an insect."
  • The Hound of the Baskervilles.

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• "If taking oneself seriously as a woman means committing to a life of grooming, pumicing, pruning and polishing one's exterior for the benefit of onlookers, then I may as well heave my unwieldy rucksack to the top of a bleak Scottish hill and make my home there under a stone, where I'll fashion shoes out of mud and clothes out of leaves."
  • Is It Just Me? by Miranda Hart.

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• "Stay alive get uglier. Get so ugly! Grow horns and fur and cloven hooves. Grow third eyes and extra limbs and a pointed tail! Grow it all because ugliness has a lust for life that the inherently morbid nature of the beautiful does not."
  • Dead Like Kurt: Surviving The Celebrity Suicide (not a book but I want it to be here), Bethany Lamont

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• "Never was she so enchanting as at this time, when she recalled the sunshine of her smiles and spent them upon us."
  • Frankenstein.