by Notley Notes - Anna Myra Notley | Apr 16, 2022 | Classics, Collected Quotes
The Introduction … all made her feel that she had come out of her chrysalis and was being proclaimed what in the long comfortable darkness of childhood she had never been – this frail and beautiful creature, this limited and circumscribed creature who could not do...
by Notley Notes - Anna Myra Notley | Apr 16, 2022 | Classics, Collected Quotes
One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is quite sure one is going to live forever and ever and ever. One knows it sometimes when one gets up at the tender solemn dawn-time and goes out and stands alone and throws one’s...
by Notley Notes - Anna Myra Notley | Apr 16, 2022 | Classics, Collected Quotes
Now, if she had been the heroine of a moral story-book, she ought at this period of her life to have become quite saintly, renounced the world, and gone about doing good in a mortified bonnet, with tracts in her pocket. But, you see, Jo wasn’t a heroine; she was only...
by Notley Notes - Anna Myra Notley | Apr 16, 2022 | Classics
As she lifted the curtain to look onto the dreary night, the moon broke suddenly from behind the clouds, and shone upon her like a bright benignant face, which seemed to whisper in the silence, ‘Be comforted, dear heart! there is always light behind the...
by Notley Notes - Anna Myra Notley | Apr 16, 2022 | Classics, Collected Quotes
Quote 1: The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.” Quote 2: ‘Yes, for we fight for more than Love or Pleasure: there is Truth. Truth counts, Truth does count.’ Quote 3: …by the side...
