{"author":"Elizabeth Gaskell","author_id":"Elizabeth+Gaskell","total_quotes":96,"quotes":[{"text":"She continued her own studies, principally attending to German, and to Literature; and every Sunday she went alone to the German and English chapels. Her walks too were solitary, and principally taken in the allée défendue, where she was secure from intrusion. This solitude was a perilous luxury to one of her temperament; so liable as she was to morbid and acute mental suffering.","author":"Elizabeth Gaskell","tags":["mental-health"],"id":2085,"author_id":"Elizabeth+Gaskell"},{"text":"Margaret was not a ready lover, but where she loved she loved passionately, and with no small degree of jealousy.","author":"Elizabeth Gaskell","tags":["jealousy","love"],"id":5454,"author_id":"Elizabeth+Gaskell"},{"text":"The temptation is too strong for me. Oh, Lord! Where is Thy peace that I believed in, in my childhood? – that I hear people speaking of now, as if it hushed up the troubles of life, and had not to be sought for – sought for, as with tears of blood! [-Jemima, chapter 26, pg. 275].","author":"Elizabeth Gaskell","tags":["hope","longing","peace","tears","temptation","troubles"],"id":17257,"author_id":"Elizabeth+Gaskell"},{"text":"- Ay! Thornton o' Marlborough Mill, as we call him.- He is one of the masters you are striving with, is he not? What sort of master is he? - Did yo' ever see a bulldog? Set a bulldog on hindlegs, and dress him up in coat and breeches, and yo'n just getten John Thornton.","author":"Elizabeth Gaskell","tags":["classics","drama","georgian-romance","period-drama","romance"],"id":20465,"author_id":"Elizabeth+Gaskell"},{"text":"But suppose it was truth double strong, it were no truth to me if I couldna take it in. I daresay there's truth in yon Latin book on your shelves; but it's gibberish and no truth to me, unless I know the meaning o' the words.","author":"Elizabeth Gaskell","tags":["language","meaning","truth","words"],"id":33316,"author_id":"Elizabeth+Gaskell"},{"text":"Her mouth was wide; no rosebud that could only open just enough to let out a 'yes' and 'no', and 'an't please you, sir'.","author":"Elizabeth Gaskell","tags":["beauty","feminism","women"],"id":33794,"author_id":"Elizabeth+Gaskell"},{"text":"A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.","author":"Elizabeth Gaskell","tags":["through","little","helps "],"id":50488,"author_id":"Elizabeth+Gaskell"},{"text":"He spoke as if the answer were a matter of indifference to him. But it was not so. For all his pain, he longed to see the author of it. Although he hated Margaret at times, when he thought of that gentle familiar attitude and all the attendant circumstances, he had a restless desire to renew her picture in his mind--a longing for the very atmosphere she breathed. He was in the Charybdis of passion, and must perforce circle and circle ever nearer round the fatal centre.","author":"Elizabeth Gaskell","tags":["john-thornton","north-and-south","passion"],"id":50577,"author_id":"Elizabeth+Gaskell"},{"text":"On some such night as this she remembered promising to herself to live as brave and noble a life as any heroine she ever read or heard of in romance, a life sans peur et sans reproche; it had seemed to her then that she had only to will, and such a life would be accomplished. And now she had learnt that not only to will, but also to pray, was a necessary condition in the truly heroic. Trusting to herself, she had fallen.","author":"Elizabeth Gaskell","tags":["brave","heroic","individual-will","noble","prayer","strength","wisdom"],"id":50870,"author_id":"Elizabeth+Gaskell"},{"text":"Oh! That look of love!' continued he, between his teeth, as he bolted himself into his own private room. 'And that cursed lie; which showed some terrible shame in the background, to be kept from the light in which I thought she lived perpetually! Oh, Margaret, Margaret! Mother, how you have tortured me! Oh! Margaret, could you not have loved me? I am but uncouth and hard, but I would never have led you into any falsehood for me.","author":"Elizabeth Gaskell","tags":["classic","deception","dishonor","falsehood","love","shame"],"id":55810,"author_id":"Elizabeth+Gaskell"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":96,"pages":10,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}