Oh! I always deserve the best treatment, because I never put up with any other; and, therefore, you must give me a plain, direct answer.
fromEmmabyJane AustenI like adventures, and I’m going to find some; I’m tired of being told that girls mustn’t run and climb and laugh out loud, as if joy were a crime, when all I want is to use the strength I have, and see where it will take me, and make something worth the trouble of being alive.
fromLittle WomenbyLouisa May AlcottNo one but a woman can help a man when he is in trouble of the heart, and he had no one to comfort him.
fromDraculabyBram StokerIf everybody minded their own business,” the Duchess said in a hoarse growl, “the world would go round a deal faster than it does.
fromAlice’s Adventures in WonderlandbyLewis CarrollEverything’s got a moral, if only you can find it.
fromAlice’s Adventures in WonderlandbyLewis CarrollFor, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.
fromAlice’s Adventures in WonderlandbyLewis CarrollBe with me always—take any form—drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!
fromWuthering HeightsbyEmily BronteIf all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and, if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.
fromWuthering HeightsbyEmily BronteIf he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn’t love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.
fromWuthering HeightsbyEmily BronteEvery atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear. Your mind is my treasure, and if it were broken, it would be my treasure still; … whatever your faults, they were not invented: I would not have a part of you altered, any more than I would have a single feature changed in my face.
fromJane EyrebyCharlotte Brontë