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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| a066506 | What constitutes virtue, Mrs Graham? Is it the circumstance of being able and willing to resist temptation; or that of having no temptations to resist? | Anne Brontë | ||
| 41a533f | I don't believe that after reading such a fine writer as Emily Bronte, I will be happy to read again Miss Amanda Gillyflower's Ill-Used by Candlelight. Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books. | Mary Ann Shaffer | ||
| 3cab905 | This mania for scribbling wasn't an unusual activity for literary middle- or upper-class children in nineteenth-century England (many poorer kids were working at a young age, including Charles Dickens, who pasted labels onto jars at Warren's Shoeblacking factory and warehouse when he was twelve years old and his father was in debtor's prison). In the late eighteenth century, young Jane Austen filled the beautiful notebooks her father had bo.. | Deborah Lutz | ||
| ed971a8 | We can never know if Charlotte and Ellen had a sexual relationship--there is certainly no proof that they did--and perhaps it doesn't matter. Their correspondence attests to a fervent love that included romantic, and perhaps even erotic, feelings. It's likely that Charlotte had heard of women who took women as lovers or "wives," such as fellow Yorkshirewoman Anne Lister, or perhaps even knew some. 38" | Deborah Lutz | ||
| c946436 | Glupo je zudjeti za ljepotom. Razumni ljudi nikada ju ne zele za sebe, niti im je stalo do nje kod drugih ljudi. Samo ako je um dobro prosvijecen, a srce na pravome mjestu, nikome nikada nije vazna vanjstina. Tako su govorili ucitelji nasega djetinjstva; a tako i mi govorimo djeci danasnjih vremena. Sve vrlo razumno i umjesno, nema sumnje; ali imaju li takve tvrdnje podrsku u stvarnim iskustvima? | Anne Brontë | ||
| 366ae76 | Citanje je moje najdraze zanimanje, kada za to imam slobodnog vremena i knjiga koje bih citala. | Anne Brontë | ||
| c652634 | No - for themselves. They were all drunkards, but Anne was the worst of the lot. Branwell, who adored her, used to pretend to get drunk at the Black Bull in order to get gin for Anne. The landlord wouldn't have let him have it if Branwell hadn't built up - with what devotion, only God knows - that false reputation as a brilliant, reckless, idle drunkard. The landlord was proud to have young Mr Bronte in his tavern; it attracted custom to th.. | Stella Gibbons | ||
| d41b118 | Mogla bih biti uistinu sretna u kuci punoj neprijatelja, kada bih imala samo jednog prijatelja, koji bi me istinski, duboko i vjerno volio. | Anne Brontë | ||
| fc3591a | Emily, now twenty-seven, and Anne, twenty-five, even pretended to be characters from their fantasyland, "escaping from the palace of instruction" while on a train to York at the end of June." | Deborah Lutz | ||
| 8d9c83e | you have blighted the promise of youth, and made my life a wilderness! | youth promise | Anne Brontë | |
| 9647e1f | When I tell you not to marry without love, I do not advise you to marry for love alone: there are many, many other things to be considered. Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them . . . . | marriage love mistakes | Anne Brontë | |
| 0112f48 | I like my blood warm. I find cold blood as appetizing as an old stale cup of coffee. It's hard to choke down, but then again I'm finicky. | Gea Haff | ||
| 1c1b9a7 | lbd 'n `dd s`t lyd ws`t lHwy'T lmwjwd@ lywm hw tHqyr ll'bdy@ | Charles Simic | ||
| 65bf715 | Even if you do only a little damage, they will learn that touching you has a price. Some will not be willing to pay it. I | Robin Hobb | ||
| 216b123 | Men walking a battlefield to search for wounded among the dead will still stop to cough, to blow their noses, still lift their eyes to watch a V of geese in flight. I have seen farmers continue their plowing and planting, heedless of armies clashing but a few miles away. | Robin Hobb | ||
| f324652 | So. Which of our troubles torments you most this evening?" Althea surrendered. "They all nip at my heels like a pack of yapping feists, ship. I don't know which to worry about first." The figurehead gave a snort of disdain. "Then kick them away as if they were truly a pack of curs and fix your gaze instead on your destiny." ... "Don't think about the obstacles" ... The ship spoke in a low, soft voice. "Long or short, if you worry about eve.. | Robin Hobb | ||
| b7f766f | She could be shaped by her past without being trapped by it" p. 283" | Robin Hobb | ||
| e927022 | Any human who dared to attack a dragon deserved to die himself. And dead, of what use was he, unless someone ate him? She didn't see why leaving a human to be eaten by worms was more acceptable. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 1ae0e6f | For there is a very strange peace in giving over your judgment to someone else, to saying to them, "You lead and I will follow, and I will trust entirely that you will not lead me to death or harm." | Robin Hobb | ||
| 5e81d88 | Isolation was better than shame. I would continue on my own. This was my fight and no one else | Robin Hobb | ||
| 5f099d5 | Nao tem de ser assim tao ruim - disse Breu calmamente. - A maior parte das nossas prisoes e criada por nos mesmos. Um homem tambem faz a propria liberdade. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 827d76d | Amber?" he said pleadingly. His voice went high on her name and broke, as it sometimes did when he was afraid. "Are you taking my beads away?" | Robin Hobb | ||
| 226cb48 | A boy is a man when he proves himself to be one, but a girl is a woman when she desires to be one. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 3847998 | I could not help but see the hand of the balancer in all of this. Could hatred and determination be a counterweight to organization and experience? I suddenly understood something about the old god of death and why he was also the god of balances. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 8425086 | All this guilt and shame and remorse you carry, Kestrel. Don't you see? That is what they burned you with. And you have added to it, all these years. The wall is of your own making. Take it down. Forgive yourself. Come out. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 9aa2928 | They do as we do, my dear. They take what joy they may find in life as they can. As you well know that Skelly has run off to do tonight, also. The shadows of harsh times creep over us. For in a battle between dragons and men, my love, it is not only the Elderlings who must decide where they stand, but you and me as well. | Robin Hobb | ||
| b0caa04 | The truth doesn't need you to recognize it, young man, for it to be so. You need the truth to recognize you. | Robin Hobb | ||
| b03f1de | I was very tired of being hit, but it seemed like the one thing I did well lately. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 246743b | The white prophet Gerda was barely twenty when she set out into the world to find her Catalyst. She had dreamed of her often since she was an infant. She travelled far from the peaceful green lands of her birth, going both by sea and by land, to a village far in the mountains where a peak smoked in the distance and glowed red at night | Robin Hobb | ||
| 3df1c3d | I had no idea what to do with this unexpected life. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 4a839ed | Be very chary of telling your hoarded secrets. Many lose all power once they have been divulged. | secrets power | Robin Hobb | |
| 60ac8a1 | You think that is true, but I assure you it is not. Death is better than the sort of captivity they plan for you. I have been a captive, a toy for heartless men. I made them fear me. It is why they sought to sell me. It was why your father could buy my freedom.' 'I do not know that tale.' 'It is a dark and sad one. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 44aa0f7 | Surrendering that pain to stone had deadened me in a way that was a relief, but there was a darker side to that forgetting. I've seen folk who numbed their pain with strong drink or Smoke or other herbs and always the loss of their pain made them less connected. Less human. And so it was with me. Every | Robin Hobb | ||
| 2f4fbde | When the bee to the earth does fall, the butterfly comes back to change all | Robin Hobb | ||
| 9011666 | We were one thing. Whole. | Robin Hobb | ||
| 297ef04 | Sometimes," he observed obliquely, "you have to trust people to understand you are not perfect."" "p. 267: Chade to Fitz" | Robin Hobb | ||
| efea7e2 | I wish they would all go away. Except the Fool. I wished he would join me. Somehow, I had always thought he would join me. Now, I could not recall why. Perhaps I had buried that in the stone. | love forgotten | Robin Hobb | |
| c2d27a0 | As it was with dragons, so it is with queens. A careless word or deed could have severe consequences. Inside | Robin Hobb | ||
| 1f10b7e | Fitz!' Motley greeted me. 'Hello, stupid!' she added. The | Robin Hobb | ||
| 0aa1ba8 | For he was the Fool now, all of Lord Chance and Lady Amber and Lord Golden scraped away by sorrow. He was no one's Beloved now. | sorrow sadness | Robin Hobb | |
| 388c1de | The hunt for meat is best, but any hunt is always the hunt, and one is never more alive than during the hunt. | Robin Hobb | ||
| a27a845 | How could the whole world not be as broken as I was? | Robin Hobb | ||
| 72673a4 | And the world re-ordered itself around me. I spoke each word carefully. 'You are so stupid. | pain sorrow stupid | Robin Hobb | |
| ecf103f | It's all my fault,' I confessed to her. 'Oh, Fitz, always you are ...' She bit back whatever it was she had started to say. More gently she added, 'No one blames you.' 'I blame me.' 'Of course you do,' she said, as if I were a child insisting the moon was a cheese. | Robin Hobb |