All the earth, though it were full of kind hearts, is but a desolation and desert place to a mother when her… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
I look at [books] as a child looks at cakes - with glittering eyes and a watering mouth, imagining the pleasure that… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“Somehow, I cannot forgive her for her neglect of me as a child, when I would have clung to her.” — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“The wife slept on, only roused by the cry of her child now and then, which seemed to have power over her,… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“They had grown up together from childhood, and all along Edith had been remarked upon by every one, except Margaret, for her… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
But the monotonous life led by invalids often makes them like children, inasmuch as thy have neither of them any sense of… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“Aye, aye! good-natured, jolly, full of fun; there are a number of other names for the good qualities the devil leaves his… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“Daniel was very like a child in all the parts of his character. He was strongly affected by whatever was present, and… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
I have passed out of childhood into old age. I have had no youth - no womanhood; the hopes of womanhood have… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“A child should be brought up with its parents, if it is to think them infallible when it grows up." "But though… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“To begin with the old rigmarole of childhood. In a country there was a shire, and in that shire there was a… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“They were a motley assembly, each with some cause for anxiety stirring at his heart; though, after all, that is saying little… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“Oh! A little bird told us,' said Miss Browning. Molly knew that little bird from her childhood, and had always hated it,… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“Osborne and Roger knowing that the wife of the former was a Frenchwoman, and, conscious of each other's knowledge, felt doubly awkward; while Molly… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share
Well, He had known what love was-a sharp pang, a fierce experience, in the midst of whose flames he was struggling! but, through that… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share
But Margaret went less abroad, among machinery and men; saw less of power in its public effect, and, as it happened, she was thrown… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share
“And besides, in the matter of friendship, I have observed that the disappointment here arises chiefly, not from liking our friends too well, or… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share
What other people may think of the rightness or wrongness is nothing in comparison to my own deep knowledge, my innate conviction that it… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share
“The first question sobbed out by his choking voice, oppressed with emotion, was-- "Where is she?" They led him to the room where his… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share
Wearily she went to bed, wearily she arose in four or five hours' time. But with the morning came hope, and a brighter view… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share
I won't say she was silly, but I think one of us was silly, and it wasn't me. — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share
Mr. Thorton love Margaret! Why, Margraret would never think of him, I'm sure! Such a thing has never entered her head." "Entering her heart… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share
“He never looked at her; and yet, the careful avoidance of his eyes betokened that in some way he knew exactly where, if they… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share
“Ay! but mother's words are scarce, and weigh heavy. Father's liker me, and we talk a deal o' rubble; but mother's words are liker… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share
Margaret liked this smile; it was the first thing she had admired in this new friend of her father's; and the opposition of character,… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share
Don’t be afraid,” she said, coldly, “ as far as love may go she may be worthy of you. It must have taken a… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share
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