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1 " She lifted her head and stepped lightly along, her eyes fixed on the sunset sky and an air of subdued exhilaration about her. "
― , Anne of Green Gables
2 " Everywhere I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded. I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. "
― , Frankenstein
3 " I postponed this attempt for some months longer; for the importance attached to its success inspired me with a dread lest I shall fail. "
4 " Like the archangel who aspired to omnipotence, I am chained in an eternal hell. "
5 " The old man was silent: the truth suggested itself to him with the boy's innocent answer. He was tied to a bed of dried leaves in the corner of a wattle hut, but he had not wholly forgotten what the ways of the world were like. "
― , A Dog of Flanders
6 " Death had been more pitiful to them than longer life would have been. It had taken the one in the loyalty of love, and the other in the innocence of faith, from a world which for love has no recompense and for faith no fulfilment. "