“ Self-preservation and determination meant she could get away with anything. As her law-abiding, conventionally minded daughter, I secretly envied her this. She was not the clinging-vine type, nor one… Mary Allsebrook
“ With a heart of furious fanciesWhereof I am commander:With a burning spear,And a horse of air,To the wilderness I wander... Tom O'Bedlam
“ Maybe I was wrong. Maybe there really is some goodness here in our world. But if goodness existed, that must mean that darkness existed as well. Erica Sehyun Song
“ He is only fifteen! Does she really think he is prepared for marriage, especially with his intellectual range of a teacup? Erica Sehyun Song
“ It is perhaps little wonder that the end of Victorianism almost exactly coincided with the invention of psychoanalysis. Bill Bryson
“ Victorian rigidities were such that ladies were not even allowed to blow out candles in mixed company, as that required them to pucker their lips suggestively. They could not say that they were going… Bill Bryson
“ But she had learnt, in those solemn hours of thought, that she herself must one day answer for her own life, and what she had done with it; and she tried to settle that most difficult problem, how muc… Elizabeth Gaskell
“ The Victorian era was perhaps the last point in Western history when magic and science were allowed to coexist. Jonathan Auxier
“ In the mystifying world that was Victorian parenthood, obedience took precedence over all considerations of affection and happiness, and that odd, painful conviction remained the case in most well-hee… Bill Bryson
“ She wore tight corsets to give her a teeny waist - I helped her lace them up - but they had the effect of causing her to faint. Mom called it the vapors and said it was a sign of her high breeding and… Jeannette Walls
“ I was never going to get any sleep. I was going to have conversation after conversation until I died of exhaustion. Here, in the restful, idyllic Victorian era. Connie Willis
“ There's a bit of a local legend about a jet heart that has turned up over the years," Flynn said. "Any time it turns up, strange things happen. Teresa Flavin
“ The boy with the haunted eyes was Dory's secret. Eli. And she knew that she had to see him again. Teresa Flavin
“ Thinking back on the outing to the theatre, she added, ‘I want a man, not a preening peacock! Katherine Givens
“ What do ladies wear beneath their riding trousers?""I would think an infamous rake would already know.""I was never infamous. In fact, I'm fairly standard as far as rakes go.""The ones who deny it are… Lisa Kleypas
“ It is nine o'clock, and London has breakfasted. Some unconsidered tens of thousands have, it is true, already enjoyed with what appetite they might their pre-prandial meal; the upper fifty thousand, a… George Augustus Sala
“ Up the still, glistening beaches,Up the creeks we will hie,Over banks of bright seaweedThe ebb-tide leaves dry.We will gaze, from the sand-hills,At the white, sleeping town;At the church on the hill-s… Matthew Arnold
“ It was the dog Abel, who - as animals have been reported to do - had made his way over all England's hills and rivers, to return to that home where he was first kindly treated. The warm fire, by which… K.W. Jeter
“ The world of shadows and superstition that was Victorian England, so well depicted in this 1871 tale, was unique. While the foundations of so much of our present knowledge of subjects like medicine, p… Hugh Lamb
