Hope Leslie Quotes

“All these many-coloured feelings fell... like light on a black surface, producing no change, meeting no return.”
― Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Hope Leslie: or, Early Times in the Massachusetts

“Marriage is not essential to the contentment, the dignity, or the happiness of woman.”
― Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Hope Leslie: or, Early Times in the Massachusetts

“It is unnecessary to heighten the glory of day by comparing it with the preceding twilight.”
― Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Hope Leslie: or, Early Times in the Massachusetts