book quotes III

[Twilight:

If I could dream at all, it would be about you.]


[Anna Karenina:

Whats to be done?

I feel myself better, purer. I feel that I have a heart, and that there is a great deal of good in me.

I tell you simply that ive lost my heart to you.

What right had I to imagine she would care to join her life to mine? Who am I and what am i?

Those joys were so small that they passed unnoticed, like gold in sand, and at bad moments she could see nothing but the pain, nothing but sand; but there were good moments too when she saw nothing but the joy, nothing but gold.

Happiness is the matter with me!

I always loved you, and if one loves any one, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be…

Every chance meeting cuts her to the heart, every day expecting an answer.

Little hope; but I will do everything possible and impossible.]


[Wuthering Heights:

It is strange people should be so greedy, when they are alone in the world!

Do you see? I’ve marked every day. Yes-very foolish; as if I took notice! And where is the sense of that? To show that I do take notice.

Hes more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

I cannot express it; but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is or should be an existence of yours beyond you.

If all else perished and he remained, I should still continue to be; and all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.

Do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!...I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!

Its wrong to anticipate evil.

It is impossible for a person should die for the love of a stranger.

Be calm and frank, and confess at once all that weighs on your heart.

I dreamt I was sleeping the last sleep by that sleeper, with my heart stopped and my cheek frozen against hers.

I have to remind myself to breathe – almost to remind my heart to beat!

The greatest punishment we could invent for her was to keep her separate from him.

In my soul and in my heart, I’m convinced I’m wrong!

I was only going to say that heaven did not seem to be my home, and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth.

Neither am I aware of the means he took to raise his mind from the savage ignorance into which it was sunk.

The return of sunshine was welcomed by answering sunshine from him.

And it ended when circumstances caused each to feel that the one’s interest was not the chief consideration in the other’s thoughts.

Who kept her gaze fixed on him as if she feared he would vanish were she to remove it.

Pray, don’t imagine that he conceals depths of benevolence and affection beneath a stern exterior! He’s not a rough diamond—a pearl-containing oyster of a rustic; he’s a fierce, pitiless, wolfish man.

I’m not your husband; you needn’t be jealous of me!

And if you flatter yourself that I don’t perceive it, you are a fool; and if you think I can be consoled by sweet words, you are an idiot; and if you fancy I’ll
suffer unrevenged, I’ll convince you on the contrary, in a very little while!

Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous.]