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do not care to be told what to think at every turn of a page. And I do not agree that they have nothing to tell us. Is Charles Grandison to be thus dismissed? Tristram Shandy? Tom Jones? Works in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature is displayed? The greatest powers of the mind described? No, I cannot sit by and leave the novel undefended.”
She knew what it was to believe herself out of place and always in the wrong,
Nobody wanted her, it seemed, not even a man she did not love.
Her chief purpose in life appeared to be the avoidance of notice.
Only when we know ourselves—when we have examined and understood our strengths and weaknesses, when we have been honest enough to admit what we really desire from life—only then do we have any chance at all of attaining it.”
People put two and two together and make five. Sometimes just the look of a thing can be enough to cause trouble.”
Sometimes the very best stuff can seem quite plain, until one examines it closely. It is only then that one sees its true quality.”
let us hear no more disobliging criticisms of your own character. The only condition I shall apply to your remaining with us is that you try to speak more kindly of yourself.
I hate to see children crushed and silenced by too much correction. Home should be a pleasant, laughing sort of a place, I always think.
“I do not sparkle much at dinners, I’m afraid.” “Perhaps that says more about the dinners you have so far attended than it does about you,”
She had been told so often she was a failure that she had come to believe it.
“You need not fear that you are, in any way, ‘dull of soul.’ That is not you at all.”
anything to distract ourselves from the tedious burden of torts and case law.”
Wow same
The man who declares his affections most readily is not necessarily the man who feels them most profoundly.”
She had done her best to learn what she was supposed to do, but somehow, she always stumbled.
She did not wish to be her husband’s instructor any more than she wished to be his pupil. What she sought was a union of equals, a coming together of like minds and sympathetic intellects.
