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“Little Jane's love would have been my best reward, without it, my heart is broken.”

Book:The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

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The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

This Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition brings together three seminal works by the Bronte sisters: Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, and Agnes Grey. These novels are celebrated for their emotional depth, complex characters, and exploration of themes such as love, social class, and individualism. more

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Charlotte Bronte

Charlotte Brontë was an English novelist known for her novel Jane Eyre, which is considered a classic of English literature. Her works are known for their deep psychological insights and emotional intensity. more

“The people in this house, I felt, and I included myself, were like characters each from a different grim and gruesome fairy tale. None of us was in the same story. We were all grotesques, and self-riveted, but in separate narratives, and so our interactions seemed weird and richly meaningless, like the characters in a Tennessee Williams play, with their bursting unimportant, but spell-bindingly mad speeches.”

People Different Self Play Character Stories House Felt Speech Mad Tales Narrative Fairy Spells Meaningless Interaction Fairy Tale Grim Unimportant Bursting Tennessee

Author:Lorrie Moore

“But words are vain; reject them all— They utter but a feeble part: Hear thou the depths from which they call, The voiceless longing of my heart.”

Heart My Heart Longing Depth Vain Rejects Voiceless

Book:Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)

“I saw thee ne'er before; I see thee never more; But love, and help, and pain, beautiful one, Have made thee mine, till all my years are done.”

Years Made Done Helping Pain Beautiful Saws Mines Thee

Book:Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)

“Don't make your own life your project in your own life: total waste of time.”

Waste Projects Wasting Time

Book:A Gate at the Stairs

Source: A Gate at the Stairs

“It is to the man who is trying to live, to the man who is obedient to the word of the Master, that the word of the Master unfolds itself.”

Men Trying Masters Obedient

Book:Unspoken Sermons Series I, II, and III

Source: Unspoken Sermons Series I, II, and III

“Things which sound like platitudes become vital, living and powerful when you have to learn them in the bottom of the barrel, in dark tunnels.”

Sound Dark Powerful Tunnels Platitudes

Author:Elisabeth Elliot

“Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.”

Men Regret Proud

Book:He Knew He was Right

Source: He Knew He was Right

“For that great Love speaks in the most wretched and dirty hearts; only the tone of its voice depends on the echoes of the place in which it sounds.”

Life Heart Speak Sound Voice Depends Dirty Tone Echoes Wretched Great Love

Book:George MacDonald: The Complete Fantasy Collection - 8 Novels & 30+ Short Stories and Fairy Tales (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Lilith, Phantastes, The Princess and Curdie, At the Back of the North Wind, Portent, The Lost Princess, Adela Cathcart, Dealings with the Fairies and many more

Source: George MacDonald: The Complete Fantasy Collection - 8 Novels & 30+ Short Stories and Fairy Tales (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Lilith, Phantastes, The Princess and Curdie, At the Back of the North Wind, Portent, The Lost Princess, Adela Cathcart, Dealings with the Fairies and many more

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