"But it ain't our feelings we have to steer by through life--no, no, we'd make shipwreck mighty often if we did that. There's only the one safe compass and we've got to set our course by that--what it's right to do."
-Anne's House of Dreams by Lucy Maud Montgomery
Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 7:36 am
"Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering . . ."
"His heart was like a sensitive plant, that opens for a moment in the sunshine, but curls up and shrinks into itself at the slightest touch of the finger, or the lightest breath of wind."
- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 1:27 pm
"The white face of the winter day came sluggishly on, veiled in a frosty mist; and the shadowy ships in the river slowly changed to black substances; and the sun, blood-red on the eastern marshes behind dark masts and yards, seemed filled with the ruins of a forest it had set on fire."