"His reward and his time had now come."
Barchester Towers (1857) by Anthony Trollope
"His reward and his time had now come."
Barchester Towers (1857) by Anthony Trollope
I lost count of the pages i was just reading
"It was as though the sister whom I had never laid eyes on, who before I was born had vanished into the stronghold of an ogre or a djinn, was now to return through a dispensation of one day only, to the world which she had quitted, and I a child of three, waked early for the occasion, dressed and curled as if for Christmas, for an occasion more serious than Christmas even, since now and at last this ogre or djinn had agreed for the sake of the wife and the children to come to church, to permit them at least to approach the vicinity of salvation, to at least give Ellen one chance to struggle with him for those children’s souls on a battleground where she could be supported not only by Heaven but by her own family and people of her own kind; yes, even for the moment submitting himself to redemption, or lacking that, at least chivalrous for the instant even though still unregenerate."
God......
Absalom, Absalom! (1936) by William Faulkner
“I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.”
-Virginia Woolf
"She was annoyed with me for going down to the landing by myself, but she didn't make a big deal about it, it being my birthday and all."
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
"I go to sleep alone, and wake up alone. I take walks. I work until I'm tired. I watch the wind play with the trash that's been under the snow all winter. Everything seems simple until you think about it. Why is love intensified by abscence?” ― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife
"Your slave, John Graham Bretton."
Villette (1853) by Charlotte Bronte.
"And seldom was a snood amid such wild luxuriant ringlets hid, whose glossy black to shame might bring the plumage of a raven's wing; and seldom o'er a breast so fair, mantled a plaid with modest care, and never brooch the folds combined above a heart more good and kind."
The Lady of the Lake - Scott
Voices mysterious far and near,
Sound of the wind and sound of the sea,
Are calling and whispering in my ear,
Whifflingpin! Why stayest thou here?
From Bernard Knox's Introduction to The Odyssey (Robert Fagles' translation).What prompted his comment "without force" is clearly his preference for the sustained heroic level of the Iliad over what he terms the Odyssey's presentation of "the fabulous and incredible" as well as the realistic description of life in the farms and palace of Odysseus' domain, which, he says, "forms a kind of of comedy of manners."
"They told the Spaniards that the colossal monuments that stood deserted about the the landscape were erected by a race of white gods which had lived there before the Incas themselves became rulers"
Thor Heyerdahl Kon-Tiki
"Yes," she thought, "he is happy and content, but what of me?..."
-Anna Karenina
I LOVE THAT BOOK. *sigh*Originally Posted by kiki1982
haha, great topic.
Here goes:
"Oh! oh! continua Corneille, comme ces gens sont en colère! Est-ce contre vous? est-ce contre moi?"
("Oh! oh! Cornelis went on, how angr are those people! Is it because of you? Is it because of me?")
La Tulipe Noire/The Black Tulip, Alexandre Dumas
She slid it over her head, then carried all her treasures back to Port where she arranged them on the central table.
- The Slow Regard of Silent Things - Patrick Rothfuss -
If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended—
If you pardon, we will mend,
And Robin shall restore amends.
Now give me your hands if we be friends.
- Extracted from Midsummer Night’s Dream by W. Shakespeare -
"The commissary knocked thrice, every blow seeming to Dantes as if struck on his heart"
Dumas; The Count on Monte Cristo
''Adesea sunt tentat să-mi plăsmuiesc o altă genealogie, să-mi schimb strămoșii, să mi-i aleg dintre aceia care, la vremea lor, au știut să semene doliul printre popoare, la antipodul străbunilor mei, alor noștri, umiliți și loviți, copleșiți de mizerii, amestecați cu țărână și gemând sub blestemul veacurilor.''
''I'm often tempted to forge myself another genealogy, to change my ancestors, to choose them from those who, at their time, knew to sow the mourning throughout peoples, at the antipode of my forefathers, of ours, humiliated and hit, overwhelmed by miseries, mixed with dust, and moaning under the curse of the ages.''
E.M. Cioran, Istorie și Utopie / History and Utopia
"Medieval Jewish sholars put the date of the Creation at 3760 BC."- Good Omens, Terry Pratched & Neil Gaiman
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"I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row
Greg's family owned two neurotic cats that were always screeching when they got under his feet or sending his heart into overdrive when they rocketed out from under his bed.
- The Sell House - Linda Newbery -
If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended—
If you pardon, we will mend,
And Robin shall restore amends.
Now give me your hands if we be friends.
- Extracted from Midsummer Night’s Dream by W. Shakespeare -
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