💬 Quotes

"When women write, they build bridges across generations, leaving maps for those who will walk the same uncharted paths tomorrow."

"Perfection is the enemy of truth, and in the architecture of a real story, it is the cracks and flaws that let the light in."

"Men don't all feel alike on a subject of this natur', and it's nat'ral that men should be governed by their opinions and feelings."

"The gifts of white men are not the gifts of the red-skin; and what isaska lawful in one, would be a grievous sin in the other."

"I'm white-born, and I've breasts that swell with many a feelin' that is nat'ral to the settlements, but I've lived much in the woods."

"Fear is a feeling that belongs to brute natur', and it shouldn't be master of human sense."

"God made the earth, give each race its gifts, and then left 'em to run their course in their own appointed fashion."

"A man is never certain of his own natur' till he's had a trial with the temptations."

"Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height."

"It is only by frequenting people who have far more leisure than ourselves that we learn how the days are made to yield a proper description of mental comfort."

"Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever, not this outer life of telegrams and anger."

"Most of us are not unamiable. But we cannot interpret silence properly. We tend to misunderstand the reserved, to think them either callous or perplexed, and to give up trying to know them."

"To be willing to connect is to accept the whole scheme of being, and to enter into the mystery of things."

"London is only a smell, people say: indeed, it is all smells. It is also a square miles and miles of red brick, well or ill designed, and the port of the world and the citadel of capitalism."

"The veryurses of the rich are generally interesting only to the rich."

"It was always the lovely moment before it was time to begin—the moment when nothing had yet been irrevocably done, when the future was still a choice of paths."

"I suppose all life is a process of breaking down."

"Beauty is only something to be-to be-oh, to be admired, to be envied."

"There is no comfort in any of them. The older one grows, the more one realizes that convention is necessary—if only to stave off the ultimate boredom."

"They were neither happy nor unhappy; they were merely existing in a sort of permanent twilight of the soul."