The Mill on the Floss quotes

In their death they were not divided.

The boat reappeared, but brother and sister had gone down in an embrace never to be parted; living through again in one supreme moment the days when they had clasped their little hands in love, and roamed the daisied fields together.

“Character,” says Novalis, in one of his questionable aphorisms,—“character is destiny.” But not the whole of our destiny.

You will find no home with me. You have disgraced us all. You have disgraced my father’s name.

I am in love with moistness, and envy the white ducks that are dipping their heads far into the water here among the withes, unmindful of the awkward appearance they make in the drier world above.