Aurora Floyd Quotes

“Self-assertion may deceive the ignorant for a time; but when the noise dies away, we cut open the drum, and find it was emptiness that made the music.”
― Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Aurora Floyd

“Reader, when any creature inspires you with this instinctive, unreasoning abhorrence, avoid that creature. He is dangerous. Take warning, as you take warning by the clouds in the sky and the ominous stillness of the atmosphere when there is a storm coming. Nature can not lie;”
― Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Aurora Floyd

“Life is not long enough to hold many such attachments as these; and the people who love very intensely are apt to concentrate the full force of their affection upon one object.”
― Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Aurora Floyd