"Unreturned" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... character had blossomed out in full perfection. And when these two became engrossed in his infant majesty. Hilary sat a little apart, unconsciously folding her hands and fixing her eyes on vacancy; becoming fearfully alive to the sharp truth, that of all griefs, a strong love unreturned or unfulfilled is the grief which most blights a woman's life. Say, rather, any human life; but it is worst to a woman, because she must necessarily endure passively. So enduring, it is very difficult to recognize the good hand of God therein. Why should He ordain longings, ...
— Mistress and Maid • Dinah Craik (aka: Miss Mulock)
... it possible, when even the common civility of a card for her card is yet unreturned, that she can have brought herself thus to descend from her ...
— The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay Volume 3 • Madame D'Arblay |
