Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
"You don’t have to speak at all—I know what you’d say…- Laura"
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"You don’t have to speak at all—I know what you’d say…- Laura"
Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
"It was cold and barren. It was no longer the view that I remembered. The sunshine of her presence was far from me. The charm of her voice no longer murmured in my ear."
Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
"There is nothing serious in mortality! Solomon in all his glory was Solomon with the elements of the contemptible lurking in every fold of his robes and in every corner of his palace."
Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
"The best men are not consistent in good—why should the worst men be consistent in evil?"
Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
"I am thinking,’ he remarked quietly, ’whether I shall add to the disorder in this room, by scattering your brains about the fireplace."
Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
"Not a word had dropped from my lips, or from hers, that could unsettle either of us—and yet the same unacknowledged sense of embarrassment made us shrink alike from meeting one another alone"
Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
"I should have asked why any room in the house was better than home to me when she entered it, and barren as a desert when she went out again—why I always noticed and remembered the little changes in her dress that I had noticed and remembered in no other woman’s before—why I saw her, heard her, and touched her (when we shook hands at night and morning) as I had never seen, heard, and touched any other woman in my life?"
Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
"I roused myself from the book which I was dreaming over rather than reading, and left my chambers to meet the cool night air in the suburbs."
Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
"Is the prison that Mr. Scoundrel lives in at the end of his career a more uncomfortable place than the workhouse that Mr. Honesty lives in at the end of his career?"
Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
"Darker and darker, he said; farther and farther yet. Death takes the good, the beautiful, and the young - and spares me. The Pestilence that wastes, the Arrow that strikes, the Sea that drowns, the Grave the closes over Love and Hope, are steps of my journey, and take me nearer and nearer to the End."
Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
"But I am a just man, even to my enemy—and I will acknowledge, beforehand, that they are cleverer brains than I thought them."
Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
"But, ah me! where is the faultless human creature who can persevere in a good resolution, without sometimes failing and falling back?"
Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
"If ever sorrow and suffering set their profaning marks on the youth and beauty of Miss Fairlie’s face, then, and then only, Anne Catherick and she would be the twin-sisters of chance resemblance, the living reflections of one another."
Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
"The first and last weakness of his life, before him again. For a moment he felt himself blinded by his own memories; his own remembrances of the wits and wiles of Marian Halcombe that would steal into his thoughts; the sound of her laughter at his outrageous tales, the shadowed glance of distrust, the way her eyebrows would raise ever so slightly despite her resolution to seem disinterested in his foreign insights. She was the first woman he ventured to have complete equality in matching his tremendous cleverness."
Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
"The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature that has remained unknown to us till she appeared."
Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
"I dread the beginning of her new life more than words can tell, but I see some hope for her if she travels - none if she remains at home."
Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
"The explanation has been written already in the three words that were many enough, and plain enough, for my confession. I loved her."
Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
"Sympathies that lie too deep for words, too deep almost for thoughts, are touched, at such times, by other charms than those which the senses feel and which the resources of expression can realise."
Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
"Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service."
Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
"I sadly want a reform in the construction of children. Nature's only idea seems to be to make them machines for the production of incessant noise."
Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
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