I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.Lucy Snowe
Happiness is the cure - a universal cure - why not let yourself go? Just be happy!Ginevra Fanshawe
But this I know; the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master- something that at times strangely wills and works for itself.Charlotte Bronte
Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilified by education: they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones.Charlotte Bronte
Your god, sir, is the World. In my eyes, you, too, if not an infidel, are an idolater.Lucy Snowe
I believe in some blending of hope and sunshine sweetening the worst lots.Charlotte Bronte
I had a theoretical reverence and homage for beauty, elegance, gallantry, fascination; but had I met those qualities incarnate in masculine shape, I should have known instinctively that they neither had nor could have sympathy with anything in me.Lucy Snowe
Why do you always say 'sometime' to me? I have noticed that custom of yours; you never say 'now'.Ginevra Fanshawe
To me, the future was a pensive thing, partly sweet, but chiefly bitter.Lucy Snowe
Heaven may have bliss; but it is not for you to delight in: its holiness - its repose - its mild ecstasy, have no significance for men like you: storm is your best adieu.Lucy Snowe to Monsieur Paul