407 Quotes by Elizabeth Gaskell

He never looked at her, and yet, the careful avoidance of his eyes betokened that in some way he knew exactly where, if they fell by chance, they would rest on her.

He had not loved her without gaining that instinctive knowledge of what capabilities were in her.

For all his pain, he longed to see the author of it.

Come poor little heart! be cheery and brave.

But courage, little heart. We will turn back, and by God's help we may find the lost path.

Bu en kötü zamanda, onu 'benim' diye çağırma umudum olmasa bileMargaret'ın büyüyüp kendisi olduğu yeri görmek istedim...

—it seemed as if she could dream her life away in such luxury of pensiveness, in which she made her present all in all, from not daring to think of the past, or wishing to contemplate the future. (Pg 59)

Then letters came in but three times a week: indeed, in some places in Scotland where I have stayed when I was a girl, the post came in but once a month;—but letters were letters then; and we made great prizes of them, and read them and studied them like books. Now the post comes rattling in twice a day, bringing short jerky notes, some without beginning or end, but just a little sharp sentence, which well-bred folks would think too abrupt to be spoken.

But she had learnt, in those solemn hours of thought, that she herself must one day answer for her own life, and what she had done with it; and she tried to settle that most difficult problem, how much was to be utterly merged in obedience to authority, and how much might be set apart for freedom in working.