2 posts tagged “quotes”

"The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a Heavn' of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n."

Lines 254-5 of Paradise Lost by John Milton. It's an excellent read so far and I'm getting along with it much better than I am with Don Quixote (so long...so repetitive). There's a lot of memorable lines and the blank verse makes it very readable. Satan is so charismatic.

This is a great idea for a group. I'm always coming across great lines but all I do is pencil mark them. This funny one is from an indescribably entertaining but very odd novel. Mademoiselle de Nazianzi is saying her prayers.

“Oh! help me, heaven,” she prayed, “to be decorative and to do right! Let me always look young, never more than sixteen or seventeen–at the very outside, and let Yousef love me – as much as I do him. And I thank you for creating such a darling, God (for he’s a perfect dear), and I can’t tell you how much I love him; especially when he wags it! I mean his tongue…Bless all the sisters at the Flaming-Hood–above all Sister Ursula…and be sweet, besides, to old Jane…Show me the straight path! And keep me ever free from the malicious scandal of the Court. Amen.”