There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows. – George Eliot
Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart. – George Eliot
What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs? – George Eliot
When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity. – George Eliot
Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like happy endings, but because I am an optimist at heart. I know the sun will rise in the morning, that there is a light at the end of every tunnel. – Michael Morpurgo