![]() We thoughtfully gather quotes from our favorite books, both classic and current, andĬhoose the ones that are most thought-provoking. For all of us, quotes are a great way to remember a bookĪnd to carry with us the author’s best ideas. For some of us a quote becomes a mantra, a goal or a More via texts, memes and sound bytes, short but profound quotes from books have become Memorable and interesting quotes from great books. ![]() ![]() by Terry Brooks About BookQuotersīookQuoters is a community of passionate readers who enjoy sharing the most meaningful, It is thoughtless to condemn them, or laugh at them, if they seek to do more or learn more than custom has pronounced necessary for their sex.” Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts, as much as their brothers do they suffer from too rigid a restraint, to absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags. Nobody knows how many rebellions besides political rebellions ferment in the masses of life which people earth. ![]() Millions are condemned to a stiller doom than mine, and millions are in silent revolt against their lot. Find them here.Īll 31 Days of Killer Quotes posts can be found in this post.“It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action and they will make it if they cannot find it. Hundreds of bloggers write on a topic of their choice for an entire month. Nester hosts a link up of 31 Days posts each October. Have you read Jane Eyre? Download the free Kindle edition. And if that boisterous Channel, and two hundred miles or so of land come broad between us, I am afraid that cord of communion will be snapt and then I’ve a nervous notion I should take to bleeding inwardly.” “I sometimes have a queer feeling with regard to you-especially when you are near me, as now: it is as if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly and inextricably knotted to a similar string situated in the corresponding quarter of your little frame. If at my individual convenience I might break them, what would be their worth?” Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour stringent are they inviolate they shall be. I will hold to the principles received by me when I was sane, and not mad-as I am now. “I will keep the law given by God sanctioned by man. I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh: it is my spirit that addresses your spirit just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God’s feet, equal - as we are!” “Do you think I am an automaton? - a machine without feelings? and can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched from my lips, and my drop of living water dashed from my cup? Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you - and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you. Rochester zing with the wit and intelligence of two vibrant characters unsatisfied with face value, peeling back surface layers to discover what hides beneath. When I first read it I was in the middle of a Jane Austen marathon, and I expected a similar sort of story. ![]() The passages of dialogue between Jane and Mr. This beautiful love story contains strong themes of duty and personal sacrifice. I get so involved with Jane that I physically hurt for her. I‘ve read Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre three times in the past five years. ![]()
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