A little something from...Charles Dickens

It was many years ago that I first read Charles Dickens' Great Expectations. I vaguely remember enjoying it, but now that I have just begun to re-read it I am realizing how much I love this novel! I even made the mistake of reading it on my way to university- I was sitting on the train so engrossed in the story that I almost missed my stop- twice!

I am not even going to try and describe what it that is so great about this novel because undoubtedly I would just ramble on and bore you to death so instead I will quote a small line from the novel (which happens to one of my favourite quotes) and let Dickens speak for himself, ...

 

"Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts."

"Great Expectations" (Chapter 19)

Love Mel xx

A little something from...William Pitt

"Why is it you only feel the thorns in your feet when you stop running?"

- William Pitt

 (Amazing Grace 2006)

A little something from...George Eliot

"I would not creep along the coast but steer out in mid-sea, by guidance of the stars"

-George Eliot

It never ceases to amaze me how a few words, specifically chosen and arranged in a perfect yet simple way can impact and inspire a person!

Love as always,

Mel xx

A little something from...Elizabeth Gaskell

This is one of my favourite quotes from Elizabeth Gaskell's Wives and Daughters. I can't help but giggle a little everytime I read/hear it :)

"I say Gibson, we're old friends, and you're a fool if you take anything I say as an offense. Madam your wife and I didn't hit it off the only time I ever saw her. I won't say she was silly, but I think one of us was silly, and it wasn't me!"

A little something from...Louisa May Alcott

"When morning came, for the first time in many months the fire was out, Jo's place was empty and the room was very still. But a bird sang blithely on a budding bough, close by, the snowdrops blossomed freshly at the window, and the spring sunshine streamed in like a benediction over the placid face upon the pillow--a face so full of painless peace that those who loved it best smiled though their tears, and thanked God that Beth was well at last"

Little Women was my favourite book as a little girl, and for some reason this was my favourite passage in the whole book- so I thought I would share it with you. I suppose many people would think that it is a strange quote and perhaps morbid-in a way but I always find much solace it in.

Have a wonderful day :)

Much Love,

Tristans_Isolde xx

A little something from...

  "If you are ever going to see a rainbow, you have got to stand a little rain."

I love quotation books and today I was blessed enough to come across another to add to my collection, within the first few pages I can across the above quote was thought it was so beautiful and inspiring that I had to share it with you too.

God Bless your day wherever you are, and what ever you are doing.

Much love,

Tristans_Isolde



A little something from Lucy Maud Montgomery

 

"Look at that sea, girls--all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. We couldn't enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds." 

This is one of my favourite quotes and is taken from a lovely little book called "Anne of Green Gables" written by Lucy Maud Montgomery. It always inspires me to see the beauty and wonder in the smallest of things but then again almost everything that Anne says inspires me :)