Prompt 1.9 - Renewal Through Literary Quotes

Nov 09, 2008 07:13

Okay, kids, let's get back into this, shall we?

This week's prompts are literary quotes. Hope you like them.

1. "I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is the leaving you all. I'm not afraid, but it seems as if I should be homesick for you even in heaven." Louisa May Alcott - Little Women - Spoken by Beth to Jo.

2. Out of the dark we came, into the dark we go. Like a storm-driven bird at night we fly out of the Nowhere; for a moment our wings are seen in the light of the fire, and, lo! we are gone again into the Nowhere. - H. Rider Haggard - King Solomon's Mines

3. "Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity." G.K. Chesterton - The Man Who Was Thursday

4. Few people realise the immensity of vacancy in which the dust of the material universe swims. H.G. Wells - The War of the Worlds

5. My spirits were elevated by the enchanting appearance of nature; the past was blotted from my memory, the present was tranquil, and the future gilded by bright rays of hope and anticipations of joy. - Mary Shelley - Frankenstein

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