Inner self Quote by Charlotte Brontë

“...[M]y inner self moved; my spirit shook its always-fettered wings half loose. I had a sudden feeling as if I, who never yet truly…

— Charlotte Brontë

“I'll never forget Jonah's face. A light poured out of him and became the spirit of the room, like a genie released from a…

— Natalie Standiford

“Jonah's breath came fast and shallow. I reached for his hand. He turned his face to me, his eyes wide with panic. Two frozen…

— Natalie Standiford

“The young man looked down from the cart at the people in front of him. Jonah felt his teacher’s eyes meet his own, and…

— Anna Myers

“(Because Jonah’s real story is the one never told: never was he as stupendously happy as during those three days and three nights of…

— Hélène Cixous

“I closed my eyelids, and imagination, taking up the thread of thought, shot its swift shuttle back across the ages, weaving a picture on…

— H. Rider Haggard

“I said so little. Days were short. Short days. Short nights. Short years. I said so little. I couldn't keep up. My heart grew…

— Czesław Miłosz

“The Journey One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice…

— Mary Oliver

“Too many words made Jonah feel like blackbirds were flying at his face, too fast and too many for him to catch. Made him…

— Eliza Maxwell

“So small a spirit, to lodge such sorrows as mankind has brought you. Live … live.… Wait for me, new, frightened soul. And though…

— Dorothy Dunnett

“But whenever my consciousness was quickened, all those early friends were quickened within it, and in some strange way they accompanied me through all…

— Willa Cather

“I was moving and breathing but everything else had become so slow. I felt that I was trapped inside a still landscape, one of…

— Tracy Emin