“What is better than to love and live with the loved? -- But that must sometimes bring us to live with the dead; and this too turns at last into a very tranquil and sweet tie, safe from change and injury.” SometimesLastsTurnsSweetSafeTiesInjuryTranquil Book:Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
“I like my boy with his endless sweet soliloquies and iterations and his utter inability to conceive why I should not leave all my nonsense, business, and writing and come to tie up his toy horse, as if there was or could be any end to nature beyond his horse. And he is wiser than we when [he] threatens his whole threat "I will not love you."” IfsShouldWritingEndsWholeBoysLove YouSweetHorseThreatEndlessTiesNonsenseToysWiserInabilityMy Boys Book:Emerson: A Modern Anthology Source: Emerson: A Modern Anthology
“When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!” MenDeathDiesLeftFriendshipDyingSweetTiesTornMournLeft AloneForlorn Author:Anna Letitia Barbauld