Tagged
earth
Heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth; and the angels were so angry that they flung me out into the middle of the heath on the top of Wuthering Heights; where I woke sobbing for joy.
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
What would your good do if evil didn’t exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows disappeared?
The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
Because horror on Earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun; it connot be contained.
The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold
And earth was heaven a little the worse for wear. And heaven was earth, done up again to look like new.
The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins
Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before—more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.
Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
What on earth can you do on this earth but catch at whatever comes near you, with both your fingers, until your fingers are broken?
Orpheus Descending, Tennessee Williams
Because horror on Earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained.
The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold
Sometimes the last person on earth you want to be with is the one person you can’t be without.
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen