Elizabeth Gaskell

I would far rather have two or three lilies of the valley gathered for me by a person I like, than the most expensive bouquet that could be bought! ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#elizabeth-gaskell #flowers #friends #lily-of-the-valley #love

She freshens me up above a bit. Who'd ha thought that face - as bright and as strong as the angel I dream of - could have known the sorrow she speaks on? I wonder how she'll sin. All on us must sing. ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#dreams

She never called her son by any name but John; 'love' and 'dear', and such like terms, were reserved for Fanny. ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#funny-and-random #mothers #names #sobriquet #sons

Oh dear! A drunken infidel weaver! said Mr. Hale to himself. ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#infidelity

Your husband this morning! Mine tonight! What do you take him for?' 'A man' smiled Cynthia. 'And therefore, if you won't let me call him changeable, I'll coin a word and call him consolable. ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#fickleness #husbands #men #men

If she lives, she shall be my wedded wife. If she dies--mother, I can't speak of what I shall feel if she dies." His voice was choked in his throat. ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#jem #loss #love #marriage #love

It is the first changes among familiar things that make such a mystery of time to the young, afterwards we lose the sense of the mysterious. ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#helstone #change

Ask , and it shall be given until you. That is no vain or untried promise, Ruth! ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#prayer #religious #inspirational

Nature felt no change, and was ever young. ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#helstone #maragaret #youth #age

The cloud never comes from the quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it. ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#comes #horizon #never #quarter #watch