He shrank from hearing Margaret's very name mentioned; he, while he blamed her – while he was jealous of her – while he renounced her – he loved her sorely, in spite of himself.
Elizabeth GaskellTag: love romance unrequited-love
Those who are happy and successful themselves are too apt to make light of the misfortunes of others.
Elizabeth GaskellI do not look on self-indulgent, sensual people as worthy of my hatred; I simply look upon them with contempt for their poorness of character.
Elizabeth GaskellShe never called her son by any name but John; 'love' and 'dear', and such like terms, were reserved for Fanny.
Elizabeth GaskellTag: names mothers sons sobriquet endearment funny-and-random
Nothing like the act of eating for equalizing men. Dying is nothing to it.
Elizabeth GaskellIf they came sorrowing, and wanting sympathy in a complicated trouble like the present, then they would be felt as a shadow in all these houses of intimate acquaintances, not friends
Elizabeth GaskellTag: chapter-vi farewell north-and-south
He could not forget the touch of her arms around his neck, impatiently felt as it had been at the time; but now the recollection of her clinging defence of him, seemed to thrill him through and through,—to melt away every resolution, all power of self-control, as if it were wax before a fire.
Elizabeth GaskellThey had grown up together from childhood, and all along Edith had been remarked upon by every one, except Margaret, for her prettiness;
Elizabeth GaskellHe came up straight to her father, whose hands he took and wrung without a word - holding them in his for a minute or two, during which time his face, his eyes, his look, told of more sympathy than could be put into words.
Elizabeth GaskellHe almost said to himself that he did not like her, before their conversation ended; he tried so hard to compensate himself for the mortified feeling, that while he looked upon her with an admiration he could not repress, she looked at him with proud indifference, taking him, he thought, for what, in his irritation, he told himself - was a great fellow, with not a grace or a refinement about him.
Elizabeth GaskellTag: indifference prejudice pride mr-thornton
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