Elizabeth Kerns’s Reviews > Silas Marner > Status Update

“In old days, there were angels who came and took men by the hand and led them away from the city of destruction. We see no white-winged angels now. But yet men are led away from threatening destruction: a hand is put into theirs, which leads them forth gently towards a calm and bright land, so that they look no more backward; and the hand may be a little child’s.”

the transfiguration of gold into child, of lust into love, is so lovely // others drawing us from ourselves, into communion

Eliot is sooo good at writing characters that fill me with rage