As a reader, I have collected quotes. Some speak to my soul. Some make laugh. Some inspire me. Some make me sad. They all affect me. Hopefully you like them too.
“I love her, and that’s the beginning and end of everything.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
“I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.” Henry David Thoreau.
“It has made me better loving you… It has made me wiser and easier and brighter.” Henry James The Portrait of A Lady
“Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end…” Madame de Stael Corinne
“I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.” Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice
“The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.” Walter Bagehot
“The only way to not think about money is to have a great deal of it.” The House of Mirth
“If you have a garden and a library you have everything you need.” Cicero
“We can’t behave like people in novels, though, can we?” Age of Innocence
“I am only a peasant by position, not by nature.” Tess of the d’Urbervilles
“Homophobia: The fear that another man will treat you like you treat women.” Andrew Sullivan
“A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.” Tess of the d’Urbervilles
“But, whatever came she had resolved never again to belong to another than herself.” The Awakening
“I’m no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.” Michel Foucault
“Where there is power, there is resistance.” Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality