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George Eliot

Middlemarch

  • Alexandra Skitiovahas quotedlast year
    Some have felt that these blundering lives are due to the inconvenient indefiniteness with which the Supreme Power has fashioned the natures of women: if there were one level of feminine incompetence as strict as the ability to count three and no more, the social lot of women might be treated with scientific certitude. Meanwhile the indefiniteness remains, and the limits of variation are really much wider than any one would imagine from the sameness of women’s coiffure and the favorite love-stories in prose and verse.
  • b6221027333has quoted2 years ago
    loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
  • b6221027333has quoted2 years ago
    what loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
  • kristinarusinahas quoted2 years ago
    the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
  • kristinarusinahas quoted2 years ago
    seen the chasm between himself and Dorothea
  • Rebecahas quoted2 years ago
    Out they toddled from rugged Avila, wide-eyed and helpless-looking as two fawns, but with human hearts,
  • kristinarusinahas quoted2 years ago
    “Thank you, uncle,” said Dorothea, in a clear unwavering tone.
  • kristinarusinahas quoted2 years ago
    in girls of sweet, ardent nature,
  • kristinarusinahas quoted2 years ago
    the reasons that might induce her to accept him were already planted in her mind, and by the evening of the next day the reasons had budded and bloomed.
  • kristinarusinahas quoted2 years ago
    shall not be urged to tell reasons she would rather be silent upon
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