“but we get accustomed to mental as well as bodily pain, without, for all that, losing our sensibility to it. it becomes a habit of our lives, and we cease to imagine a condition of perfect ease as possible for us. desire is chastened into submission, and we are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence and act as if we were not suffering.” - adam bede, george eliot
(via sweepmeup)
“my soul is so knit to yours that it is but a divided life i live without you. and this moment, now you are with me, and i feel that our hearts are filled with the same love. i have a fulness of strength to bear and do our heavenly Father’s will that i had lost before.” - adam bede, george eliot
(via pureblyss)
“you will never understand women’s natures if you are so excessively rational.” -adam bede, george eliot
“i know it is a vain thought to flee from the work that God appoints us, for the sake of finding a greater blessing to our own souls, as if we could choose for ourselves where we shall find the fullness of the Divine Presence, instead of seeking it where alone it is to be found, in loving obedience.” - adam bede, george eliot
(via melanie-loves-yoga)
“how can there be anything contrary to what’s right in our belonging to one another and spending out lives together? who put this great love into our hearts? can anything be holier than that?” - adam bede, george eliot
(via herheartandhome)
“delicious autumn! my very soul is wedded to it, and if i were a bird i would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.” - george eliot
(via loveliketruth)
“i trusted as the strong love God has given me towards you was a leading for us both; but it seems it was only meant for my trial.” - adam bede, george eliot
(via search-my-s0ul)
“she wanted to be treated lovingly— oh, it was very hard to bear this blank of absence, silence, apparent indifference, after those moments of glowing love!” - adam bede, george eliot
“and i found it better for my soul to be humble before the mysteries of God’s dealings, and not be making a clatter about what i could never understand. and they’re poor foolish questions after all; for what have we got either inside or outside of us but what comes from God?” - adam bede, george eliot
(via coffeeishtea)
“but what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.” - middlemarch, george eliot
(via browndresswithwhitedots)
“the poor girl no more conceived at present the idea that he could ever be her lover than a baker’s pretty daughter in the crowd, whom a young emperor distinguishes by an imperial but admiring smile, conceives that she shall be made empress. but the baker’s daughter goes home and dreams of the handsome young emperor, and perhaps weighs the flour amiss while she is thinking what a heavenly lot it must be to have him for a husband.” - adam bede, george eliot
“who shall measure the subtlety of those touches which convey the quality of soul as well as body, and make a man’s passion for one woman differ from his passion for another as joy in the morning light over valley and river and white mountain-top differs from joy among chinese lanterns and glass panels?” - middlemarch, george eliot
“if youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us; for no age is so apt as youth to think its emotions, partings, and resolves are the last of their kind. each crisis seems final, simply because it is new.” - middlemarch, george eliot
“there is no sorrow i have thought more about than that— to love what is great, and to try to reach it, and yet to fail.” - middlemarch, george eliot
(via tealcheesecake)
“and he was sure that her love, whenever she gave it, would be the most precious thing a man could possess on earth.” - adam bede, george eliot
(via loveistodismissyourfears)
