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North and South
Elizabeth Gaskell
Top 10 Best Quotes
“I know you despise me; allow me to say, it is because you do not understand me.”
“One word more. You look as if you thought it tainted you to be loved by me. You cannot avoid it. Nay, I, if I would, cannot cleanse you from it. But I would not, if I could. I have never loved any woman before: my life has been too busy, my thoughts too much absorbed with other things. Now I love, and will love. But do not be afraid of too much expression on my part.”
“Margaret was not a ready lover, but where she loved she loved passionately, and with no small degree of jealousy.”
“Oh, Mr. Thornton, I am not good enough!' 'Not good enough! Don't mock my own deep feeling of unworthiness.”
“He shrank from hearing Margaret's very name mentioned; he, while he blamed her – while he was jealous of her – while he renounced her – he loved her sorely, in spite of himself.”
“He shook hands with Margaret. He knew it was the first time their hands had met, though she was perfectly unconscious of the fact.”
“But the future must be met, however stern and iron it be. ”
“A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.”
“But the cloud never comes in that quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.”
“I wanted to see the place where Margaret grew to what she is, even at the worst time of all, when I had no hope of ever calling her mine.”
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