Quote by George Eliot

“I have never done you injustice. Please remember me,” said Dorothea, repressing a rising sob. “Why should you say that?” said Will, with irritation.…

— George Eliot

“Lady Dorothea’s opinionated answers had been exactly what he did not like, and yet . . . he had felt his usual rationality slipping…

— Melanie Dickerson

“Besides, if she was able to get away, Dorothea would obtain the one thing that Avelina had dreamed of, written stories about, and imagined…

— Melanie Dickerson

“Walt Whitman, who worked as a nurse in the hospital wards, that the harrowing experience made one’s “little cares and difficulties” disappear “into nothing.”

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“Inevitably, I became distracted by tales that I knew held no promise for us—accounts of murders that had long since been solved, or whose…

— Caleb Carr

“Victims don't make it very far in life”

— Katie Kacvinsky

“After all, life was like that for most of us – the small unpleasantnesses rather than the great tragedies; the little useless longings rather…

— Barbara Pym

“I struck him down for Deborah, and for all the poor and ignorant women I have seen screaming in the flames, for the women…

— Anne Rice

“But while the residents were shocked by the violence, they were also often surprised by the mundaneness of it all. Discovered the extent of…

— Kiran Desai

“The reality is that for many of us family was as much the incubator of despair as the safe nurturing”

— Dorothy Allison

“Like my loved one, I am convinced that we all have critical conditions. Battles that we undertake behind the hospitals, in lonely alleys, secret…

— Phindiwe Nkosi

“Not at all," said Dorothea, with the most open kindness. "I like you very much." Will was not quite contented, thinking that he would…

— George Eliot