"If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you, I would be your slave."
- Emily Brontë
"…There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad."
- Homer
"Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships."
- Zora Neale Hurston
"A great nose may be an indexOf a great soul"
- Edmond Rostand
"Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?"
- William Makepeace Thackeray
"A man leaves his great house because he's boredWith life at home, and suddenly returns,Finding himself no happier abroad.He rushes off to his villa driving like mad,You'ld think he's going to a house ..."
- Titus Lucretius Carus
"Jude leaped out of arm's reach, and walked along the trackway weeping--not from the pain, though that was keen enough; not from the perception of the flaw in the terrestrial scheme, by which what was ..."
- Thomas Hardy
"Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you - it’s born with us the day that we a..."
"They had no conversation together, no intercourse but what the commonest civility required. Once so much to each other! Now nothing! There had been a time, when of all the large party now filling the ..."
- Jane Austen
"But I hate to hear you talking so like a fine gentleman, and as if women were all fine ladies, instead of rational creatures. We none of us expect to be in smooth water all our days."