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How dear one person can be when you love with everything you are
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
“Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.”
World Advice to men before you fall in love!
Cyrano de Bergerac
by Edmond Rostand
“She is a mortal danger to all men. She is beautiful without knowing it, and possesses charms that she’s not even aware of. She is like a trap set by nature – a sweet perfumed rose in whose petals Cupid lurks in ambush! Anyone who has seen her smile has known perfection. She instills grace in every common thing and divinity in every careless gesture. Venus in her shell was never so lovely, and Diana in the forest never so graceful as my Lady when she strides through Paris!”
Take heed to good advice. Dickens has it.
“My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; that in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest.”
― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
Hmm. Twain, you said well, classically speaking.
“′Classic′ – a book which people praise and don’t read.”
― Mark Twain
Quotes to live by.
“You call yourself a free spirit, a ‘wild thing,’ and you’re terrified somebody’s gonna stick you in a cage. Well baby, you’re already in that cage. You built it yourself. And it’s not bounded in the west by Tulip, Texas, or in the east by Somali-land. It’s wherever you go. Because no matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself.”
― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Anne Rice as labeled in the classic fiction column of life…advice from a vampire.
None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.
– Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat
Tolkien always makes a person challenge their own belief system…make new decisions, outlooks, and philosophies on life.
There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for.
– J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
