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There sat the interesting pair, uncared for by all, caring for none, and dreaming only of themselves; there they sat, in short, like a pair of carefully folded kid-gloves--bound up in each other.
The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens
It is one of the easiest achievements in life to offend your family when your family want to get rid of you.
Our Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens
His life was made an agony by the number of fine scalpels that he felt to be incessantly engaged in dissecting his dignity.
Little Dorrit, Charles Dickens
Being something too soon in their arrival, they lurked at a corner, waiting for her to appear. The best-looking among us will not look very well lurking at a corner, and Bradley came out of that disadvantage very poorly indeed.
Our Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens
A bill is the most extraordinary locomotive engine that the genius of man ever produced. It would keep on running during the longest lifetime, without ever once stopping of its own accord.
The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens
Was it the specialty of Mr. and Mrs. Lammle, or does it ever obtain with other loving couples? In these matrimonial dialogues they never addressed each other, but always some invisible presence that appeared to take a station about midway between them. Perhaps the skeleton in the cupboard comes out to be talked to, on such domestic occasions?
Our Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens
What better way to learn about Charles Dickens than through an ADVENTURE GAME? This BBC creation stars YOU as an adorable little fellow in a pageboy cap, who wanders the streets of London and meets famous characters from the novels of Charles Dickens. In the screenshot above, I've just met Jo, the crossing-sweeper who gave Esther Summerson smallpox in Bleak House. Thanks for the smallpox, Jo!
There are also a few awesome mini-games, where you can try to pick-pocket the passers-by or help drag corpses out of the river. But don't pick up the diseased corpses! You don't want to catch cholera and die, do you? Because you will. This game isn't messing around.
'My child is welcome, though unlooked for,' said she, presenting her cheek as if it were a cool slate for visitors to enroll themselves upon.
Our Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens' great great great grandchildren, siblings Tom Dickens (15), Lydia Dickens (14), and Oliver Dickens (9), take a selfie with their ancestor's new statue in Portsmouth. (x)
Make. A. Fanfic. Out of this.
This is good material right here.
Don’t feel bad if you’re sensitive to negative feedback because apparently after one particular bad review Hans Christian Andersen was found just sobbing while lying face down in the dirt
I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
"I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be."
Charles Dickens (Great Expectations)
"Love her, love her, love her!
If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her.
If she tears your heart to pieces – and as it gets older and stronger, it will tear deeper – love her, love her, love her!"
~Charles Dickens (Great Expectations)
The amount of innocent intimacy these words hold...
"You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read."
- Charles Dickens
and...
“Each time you happen to me all over again.”
― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
"Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts."
Charles Dickens
when he says "I love you" but Charles Dickens once said, "I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be."
Books to read for Christmas.
The Toy Makers by Robert Dinsdale
The Afterlife of Holly Chase by Cynthia Hand
The nutcracker by E. T. A. Hoffmann
The Enchanted Sonata by Heather Dixon
Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances by John Green, Lauren Myracle, and Maureen Johnson
Hercule Poirot's Christmas by Agatha Christie
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
