The Brontë Plot Quotes

“All real lives hold controversy, trials, mistakes, and regrets. What matters is what you do next.”
― Katherine Reay, The Brontë Plot

“While I don't believe in love at first sight, because I think it takes more work than that, I do believe that one soul can speak to another and find an inexplicably deep connection over a short period of time, unimaginably short, and know that it will never forget that soul, that moment, or the light it emits forever.”
― Katherine Reay, The Brontë Plot

“I mean that reading forms your opinions, your worldview, especially childhood reading, and anything that does that has an impact. So call them friends, call some stories enemies if you want, but don’t deny their influence.”
― Katherine Reay, The Brontë Plot

“All the books have it . . . That time when you don’t know where you’ll be, but you can’t stay as you are. In life or in literature, that time rarely feels good.”
― Katherine Reay, The Brontë Plot

“You learn drama from the Brontës; sense from Austen; social justice from Dickens; beauty from Wordsworth, Keats, and Byron; patience and perseverance from Gaskell; and don't even get me started on exercising your imagination with Carroll, Doyle, Wells, Wilde, Stoker--”
― Katherine Reay, The Brontë Plot

“Lucy reached in her bag and pulled out the book, knowing exactly where to search. I thank my Maker, that, in the midst of judgment, he has remembered mercy. I humbly entreat my Redeemer to give me strength to lead henceforth a purer life than I have done hitherto. There it was. Mercy. Grace. And just as she’d told James, fiction conveyed change and truth and was loved and digested again and again because it reflected the worst, the best, and all the moments in between of the human experience.”
― Katherine Reay, The Brontë Plot

“I'm not guaranteed a happy ending just because I make it to the last page.”
― Katherine Reay, The Brontë Plot

“Don't hang on to the past so tightly that you taint the future.”
― Katherine Reay, The Brontë Plot

“People aren't always what they appear, James. The gift is accepting them as who they are, not who we want them to be.”
― Katherine Reay, The Brontë Plot

“Artists create things that point us to beauty, to truth, to God.”
― Katherine Reay, The Brontë Plot

“I mean, just because one soul will love another forever, doesn’t mean it should. It doesn’t always work out. But then, as you say, and I’ve come to agree, people change. And when two people figure out how to do that together, then yes, that can last forever.”
― Katherine Reay, The Brontë Plot

“James stared at her. “I’ve never heard anyone talk about books like you do. It’s like they’re your friends.” “Aren’t they yours?” James raised his eyebrow. Lucy laughed. “Don’t even. They’re as much your friends as they are mine. I don’t mean it in some strange or creepy antisocial way. I mean that reading forms your opinions, your worldview, especially childhood reading, and anything that does that has an impact. So call them friends, call some stories enemies if you want, but don’t deny their influence.” She popped up straight. “You learn drama from the Brontës; sense from Austen; social justice from Dickens; beauty from Wordsworth, Keats, and Byron; patience and perseverance from Gaskell; and don’t even get me started on exercising your imagination with Carroll, Doyle, Wells, Wilde, Stoker—”
― Katherine Reay, The Brontë Plot

“There it was. Mercy. Grace. And just as she'd told James, fiction conveyed change and truth and was loved and digested again and again because it reflected the worst, the best, and all the moments in between of the human experience.”
― Katherine Reay, The Brontë Plot

“Waiting was arrogant and cowardly at the same time. It said she couldn’t be satisfied, was always holding out, and was never content. Also cowardly because she was leaving an escape open, never letting anything tie her too closely to a home. And the result? Beauty wasted and lying on a cold wood floor and books with no shelves of her own to hold them.”
― Katherine Reay, The Brontë Plot

“While I don't believe in love at first sight, because I think it takes more work than that, I do believe that one soul can speak to another and find an inexplicably deep connection over a short period of time, unimaginably short, and know that it will never forget that soul, that moment, or the light it emits forever.
― Katherine Reay, The Brontë Plot”
― Katherine Reay, The Brontë Plot