💬 Quotes

"I would give up the unessential; I would give my money, I would give my life for my children; but I wouldn't give myself."

"She began to look at her position in the universe as a human being, and to recognize her relations as an individual to the world within and about her."

"The voice of the sea is seductive, never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander for a spell in abysses of solitude."

"It was not a despair, but a feeling of absolute contentment to be alone, to be herself."

"She felt like some new-born creature, opening its eyes in a familiar world that it had never known."

"Oh, I am so scared of what is at the end of this book!"

"Please, please do not turn the page."

"I am so smart to think of that!"

"You are my best friend, and you have let me down."

"Well, look at that. This is the end of the book. And the only one here is me. I, Grover, am the monster at the end of this book."

"And you were so scared."

"It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view."

"We are all of us born in moral stupidity, taking the world as an udder to feed our supreme selves."

"But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts."

"If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence."

"Marriage, which was to bring guidance into irresistible sway, had turned into an abyss of domestic conflict."

"I should like to make life beautiful—I mean everybody's life."

"My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt."

"There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham."

"I have often thought that people forget that a horse is a living creature, and that it can feel, and suffer, and be glad, just as they can."