Echoes and Elegance
For when you want language that lingers, and stories that remember—even when the world forgets. Old pages, open wounds, and beauty that refuses to fade.
by Jane Austen“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book!”Pride and Prejudice
by Charlotte Brontë“He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”Wuthering Heights
by Emily Brontë“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”Jane Eyre
by Ernest Hemingway“Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with that there is.”The Old Man and the Sea
by F. Scott Fitzgerald“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald“It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being.”This Side of Paradise
by Oscar Wilde“I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”The Picture of Dorian Gray
by Fyodor Dostoevsky“My God, a whole moment of happiness! Is that too little for the whole of a man’s life?”White Nights
by Gustave Flaubert“One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.”Madame Bovary
by Leo Tolstoy“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”Anna Karenina
by Virginia Woolf“I am rooted, but I flow.”The Waves
by Virginia Woolf“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”A Room of One’s Own
by John Steinbeck“And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.”East of Eden
by John Steinbeck“A guy needs somebody—to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain’t got nobody.”Of Mice and Men
by Nathaniel Hawthorne“She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.”The Scarlet Letter
by Harper Lee“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”To Kill a Mockingbird