“Like all magnificent things, it's very simple.”
― Tuck Everlasting
― Tuck Everlasting
“Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation."
"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.”
― Jane Eyre
"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.”
― Jane Eyre
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Northanger Abbey
― Northanger Abbey
“Fantasy is one of the soul's brighter porcelains.”
― Beach Music
― Beach Music
“Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.”
― Beach Music
― Beach Music
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