Difficult Quote by Elizabeth Gaskell

Yet it was very difficult to separate her interpretation, and keep it distinct from his meaning.

— Elizabeth Gaskell

And in this passion for understanding her soul lay close to his; she had him all to herself. But he must be made abstract…

— Anonymous

“Unlike him she knew this and sat many hours with her head in her hands, I thought then, to make the words fall out.…

— Jeanette Winterson

“From the beginning, she had sat looking at him fixedly. As he now leaned back in his chair, and bent his deep-set eyes upon…

— Charles Dickens

“She seemed never to be troubled by the notion that there might be two sides to a story, or more than one interpretation of…

— Vivian Gornick

“She cannot know him. Not truly... And though she knows that's the case for everyone, for no one can exist within another's mind or…

— Gian Sardar

There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the…

— Henry James

“And he wondered, suddenly, what sort of divide it created between them, that he knew pieces of her that she had never shared with…

— Meredith Duran

“She knew him only slightly; but she liked him. He did not encourage her psychic views; quite the contrary; but he discouraged them as…

— G.K. Chesterton

“She had always been beautiful in his eyes, and admirable, too. He had worshipped her, in some ways, for her courage in adversity, for…

— Michael Moorcock

“but yet it appeared to her so natural, so inevitable to strive against an inclination of that sort unrequited, that she could not comprehend…

— Jane Austen

We could not help contrasting the equanimity of Nature with the bustle and impatience of man. His words and actions presume alwaysa crisis near…

— Henry David Thoreau