Five Novels Quotes

“Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of art."

(Last words, according to Dickens's obituary in The Times.)”
― Charles Dickens, Five Novels: Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations

“She has been an angel, mother,' returned Steerforth, 'for a little while; and has run into the opposite extreme, since, by way of compensation.”
― Charles Dickens, The Essential Dickens: A Tale of Two Cities, A Christmas Carol, Great Expectations, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist