ᝰ ੯•໒꒱ 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐐𝐮𝐨𝐭𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐭𝐬 ᯓ
ᝰ ❝ I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right. ❞
ᝰ ❝ I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape. ❞
ᝰ ❝ You have been in every line I have ever read. ❞
ᝰ ❝ I loved her against reason. ❞
ᝰ ❝ Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears. ❞
ᝰ ❝ If she wounds you, love her. ❞
ᝰ ❝ Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching. ❞
ᝰ ❝ You are part of my existence, part of myself. ❞
ᝰ ❝ I was better after I had cried. ❞
ᝰ ❝ You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day. ❞
ᝰ ❝ If she favours you, love her. ❞
ᝰ ❝ You have been the embodiment of every graceful fancy that my mind has ever become acquainted with. ❞
ᝰ ❝ There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth. ❞
ᝰ ❝ Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies. ❞
ᝰ ❝ Throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise. ❞
ᝰ ❝ I must be taken as I have been made. ❞
ᝰ ❝ I had devoutly believed her to be human perfection. ❞
ᝰ ❝ I loved her simply because I found her irresistible. ❞
ᝰ ❝ The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me. ❞
ᝰ ❝ Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade. ❞
ᝰ ❝ Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule. ❞
ᝰ ❝ I am what you designed me to be. I am your blade. You cannot now complain if you also feel the hurt. ❞
ᝰ ❝ Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures, hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle help it? ❞
ᝰ ❝ We changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late and too far to go back. ❞
ᝰ ❝ It is blind devotion, unquestioning self-humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your whole heart and soul to the smiter. ❞
ᝰ ❝ I stole her heart away and put ice in its place. ❞
ᝰ ❝ Her contempt for me was so strong, that it became infectious, and I caught it. ❞
ᝰ ❝ Scattered wits take a long time in picking up. ❞
ᝰ ❝ Life is made of so many partings welded together. ❞
ᝰ ❝ No varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself. ❞
ᝰ ❝ That was a memorable day to me. ❞
ᝰ ❝ And could I look upon her without compassion? ❞
ᝰ ❝ I was always treated as if I had insisted on being born. ❞
ᝰ ❝ One keeps a secret better than two. ❞
ᝰ ❝ The freshness of her beauty was, indeed, gone. ❞
ᝰ ❝ If there's been any fault at all today, it's mine. ❞
ᝰ ❝ Out of my weakness and my sorrow, I will make my strength. ❞