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The child now shewed her a narrow and rugged descent, made by cutting the red clay and stones, of which the cliffs are here composed, into a sort of rude steps.


Charlotte Smith

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CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to a...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë There are very few friends that will lie down with you on empty streets in the middle of the night, ...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON Sometimes you need to sit lonely on the floor in a quiet room in order to hear your own voice and no...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON It is hard work to control the workings of inclination and turn the bent of nature; but that it may ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I haven’t been very impressed lately.
By people,
or places,
or the way someone said...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON I can’t believe it.’ I whispered.
‘You can’t let him lure you back in, Felicia. He’s ...
CHARLOTTE MUNRO So for now,
I will miss you like I’ll never see you again,
And the next time I see you,<...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON You’re thinking, maybe it would be easier to let it slip
let it go
say ”I give up” o...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON You have to believe that your voice can mean something. You have to believe that what you do matters...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON I was free with every road as my home. No limitations and no commitments. But then summer passed and...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON So many people will tell you ”no”, and you need to find something you believe in so hard that yo...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON Go outside. Don’t tell anyone and don’t bring your phone. Start walking and keep walking until y...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON Letting go of things and not being afraid of being ridiculous or over the top - I think that's t...
CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG You think that being a girl is degrading, but secretly, you'd love to know what it's like, w...
CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG I was obsessed with David Bowie - still am. He's a babe, a total babe. His music is killer; his ...
CHARLOTTE SULLIVAN His venture sounds like a banana peel awaiting its victim.
CHARLOTTE CURTIS If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and abs...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE An isolated outbreak of virginity is a rash on the face of society. It arouses only pity from the m...
CHARLOTTE BINGHAM You read and write and sing and experience, thinking that one day these things will build the charac...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON I was a flower that bloomed and sparked way too fast. He took me in ’cause I was pretty in all kin...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON You were the hardest year of my life and I’ve never been so happy. What does that say about me?
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON 6 months, 2 weeks, 4 days,
and I still don’t know which month it was then
or what day it...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON It hurts to breathe. It hurts to live. I hate her, yet I do not think I can exist without her.
CHARLOTTE FEATHERSTONE Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë You are no ruin sir--no lighting-struck tree: you are green and vigorous. Plants will grow about you...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë She sang, as requested. There was much about love in the ballad: faithful love that refused to aband...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Your god, sir, is the World. In my eyes, you, too, if not an infidel, are an idolater. I conceive th...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Hurting people you love is the heaviest kind of regret.
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON At that time, I well remember whatever could excite - certain accidents of the weather, for instance...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Jane, my little darling (so I will call you, for so you are), you don't know what you are talking ab...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë So now it’s this thing I do.
I go away, ever so often, by myself, for myself,
to new pla...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON Let me wake up next to you, have coffee in the morning and wander through the city with your hand in...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON My style very much leans towards the masculine, but I think I am feminine in it - I like the feminin...
CHARLOTTE RAMPLING It is a long way off, sir"
"From what Jane?"
"From England and from Thornfield: and ___" CHARLOTTE BRONTë But I was young
and didn’t know better
and someone should have told me to capture every ...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON So they gave me love in form of poison and tiny little pills, programming my emotions, teaching me h...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON I just want to be someone, to mean something to anyone…
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON It doesn’t matter how many times you leave, it will always hurt to come back and remember what you...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON It’s the beating of my heart.
The way I lie awake, playing with shadows slowly climbing up ...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON As he clutched her in his shaking hands and wept against her, he whispered into her ear, the words t...
CHARLOTTE FEATHERSTONE She glared at him through tear-filled eyes. “You talk of your pain? You cannot even begin to under...
CHARLOTTE FEATHERSTONE He towered over her, dwarfing her with his height and the bulk of his body which was clothed in the ...
CHARLOTTE FEATHERSTONE