Sublime

Laura also thought that the law had done a great deal to spoil Henry. It had changed his natural sturdy stupidity into a browbeating indifference to other people’s point of view. He seemed to consider himself briefed by his Creator to turn into ridicule the opinions of those who disagreed with him, and to attribute dishonesty, idiocy, or a base

In myths, people turn into all kinds of things. Birds, animals, trees, flowers, rivers. Why not an American named Winston?

derelict

Estelle was thinking about another author now, one who almost a hundred years ago wrote that your children aren’t your children, they’re the sons and daughters of life’s longing for itself.

Weltschmerz

pertness;

“Il ne m’en fallait pas même la propriété, c’est assez pour moi de la jouissance : et il y a longtemps que j’ai dit et senti que le propriétaire et le possesseur sont souvent deux personnes très différentes, même en laissant à part les maris et les amants. Ici commence le court bonheur de ma vie ; ici viennent les paisibles, mais rapides moments

“John may live here, but I shall not.” “You are going to leave him?” “Yes.” “But why?” She paused a long time, and said at last: “Perhaps—because I want to be—free!” And, as she spoke, I had a sudden vision of broad spaces, virgin tracts of forests, untrodden lands—and a realization of what freedom would mean to such a nature as Mary Cavendish. I