Emma > Emma's Quotes

“dive for dreams
or a slogan may topple you
(trees are their roots
and wind is wind)

trust your heart
if the seas catch fire
(and live by love
though the stars walk backward)

honour the past
but welcome the future
(and dance your death
away at this wedding)

never mind a world
with its villains or heroes
(for god likes girls
and tomorrow and the earth)”
― E.E. Cummings

“Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all.”
― Emily Dickinson

“But she was inside the wonderful garden, and she could come through the door under the ivy any time, and she felt as if she had found a world all her own.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

“Magic is always pushing and drawing and making things out of nothing.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

“And the secret garden bloomed and bloomed and every morning revealed new miracles.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“If a book is well written, I always find it too short.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“One word from you shall silence me forever.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Beware how you give your heart.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey