“A girl of eighteen imagines the feelings behind the face that has moved her with its sympathetic youth as easily as primitive people imagined the humors of the gods in fair weather. What is she to believe in if not in this vision woven from within?” PeopleIfsBelieveFeelingsFacesGirlBehindsVisionImagineYouthFairsMovedWeatherPrimitiveSympatheticEighteenWoven Book:Romola: In Two Volumes Source: Romola: In Two Volumes
“The longer a woman remains single, the more apprehensive she will be of entering into the state of wedlock. At seventeen or eighteen, a girl will plunge into it, sometimes without either fear or wit; at twenty, she will begin to think; at twenty-four, will weigh and discriminate; at twenty-eight, will be afraid of venturing; at thirty, will turn about, and look down the hill she has ascended, and sometimes rejoice, sometimes repent, that she has gained that summit sola.” ThinkingLooksSometimesStatesTurnsGirlWomenMarriageFourTwentiesRemainsEightWitHillsThirtyRejoiceEnteringRepentSummitEighteenPlungeSeventeenWedlock Author:Samuel Richardson