Theme: emotion
Pride and Prejudice / Pride and Influence
His pride, in that direction, may be of service, if not to himself, to many others, for it must deter him from such foul misconduct as I have suffered...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Isolation and Connection
This thought haunted him, and he never ceased cursing his miserable folly. Finding himself too wretched to remain alone, he knocked at Aouda’s door, w...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Nature and Conflict
It was a perfect day, with a bright sun and a few fleecy clouds in the heavens. The trees and wayside hedges were just throwing out their first green ...
Dracula / Connections in Grief
Big, dark blue eyes are set widely apart, and are quick and tender or stern with the man’s moods. “It is Mina Murray that I came to see that was frien...
Frankenstein / Transformation Through Love
how sincerely you did love me, and endeavour to elevate my mind until it was on a level with your own. A selfish pursuit had cramped and narrowed me, ...
Dracula / Urban Reflections
He seemed not to notice, but remarked that the smuts in London were not quite so bad as they used to be when he was a student here. I am to get his re...
Frankenstein / Healing Amid Grief
We are all unhappy; but will not that be an additional motive for you, my son, to return and be our comforter? I now say, Thank God she did not live t...
Wuthering Heights / Class and Conflict
don’t let them say such things,” she pursued in great trouble. “Papa is gone to fetch my cousin from London: my cousin is a gentleman’s son. That my—”...
Frankenstein / Maternal Innocence
She was warmly attached to the child who is now dead and acted towards him like a most affectionate mother. For my own part, I do not hesitate to say ...
Pride and Prejudice / Urgency of Communication
“No; but it must be done soon.” Most earnestly did she then entreat him to lose no more time before he wrote. my dear father,” she cried, “come back a...
The War of the Worlds / Conflict and Machinery
I turned to a scowling face, and silent, eloquent lips. He wanted the slit, which permitted only one of us to peep through; and so I had to forego wat...
Dracula / Empathy and Connection
I saw the manuscript in his hand, and I knew that when he read it he would realise how much I knew; so I said to him:-- “I wish I could comfort all wh...
Wuthering Heights / Vengeance and Forgiveness
It is, if I may take an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth; for every wrench of agony return a wrench: reduce him to my level. As he was the first to...
Frankenstein / Internal Conflict
Interpret my words with candour and answer me, I conjure you, with confidence and sincerity.” I listened to my father in silence and remained for some...
Frankenstein / Condemnations Weight
The ballots had been thrown; they were all black, and Justine was condemned. I had before experienced sensations of horror, and I have endeavoured to ...
Dracula / Emotional Contrasts
My dear, I must stop here at present, I feel so miserable, though I am so happy. “_Evening._ “Arthur has just gone, and I feel in better spirits than ...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Unexpected Encounter
I felt lightened of the load which had oppressed me, and was able to return with some degree of calmness to my accustomed work. That night, about elev...
Pride and Prejudice / Familial Conflict
Darcy should hear the first raptures of her joy, than the first vehemence of her disapprobation. Darcy rise also and follow him, and her agitation on ...
Dracula / Grief and Humility
When Lord Godalming got his and turned it over--it does make a pretty good pile--he said:-- “Did you write all this, Mrs. Harker?” I nodded, and he we...
Frankenstein / Yearning for Connection
I asked, it is true, for greater treasures than a little food or rest: I required kindness and sympathy; but I did not believe myself utterly unworthy...
Pride and Prejudice / Inheritance and Insensibility
“I cannot bear to think that they should have all this estate. If it was not for the entail, I should not mind it.” “What should not you mind?” “I sho...
Dracula / Loves Complexities
Being proposed to is all very nice and all that sort of thing, but it isn’t at all a happy thing when you have to see a poor fellow, whom you know lov...
Dracula / Dreams and Reality
Before she answered, that sweet, puckered look came into her forehead, which Arthur--I call him Arthur from her habit--says he loves; and, indeed, I d...
Pride and Prejudice / Courage and Conflict
They walked towards the Lucases’, because Kitty wished to call upon Maria; and as Elizabeth saw no occasion for making it a general concern, when Kitt...
Frankenstein / Creative Duality
Even now I cannot recollect without passion my reveries while the work was incomplete. I trod heaven in my thoughts, now exulting in my powers, now bu...
Pride and Prejudice / Survival Anxiety
Let us flatter ourselves that _I_ may be the survivor.” This was not very consoling to Mrs. Bennet; and, therefore, instead of making any answer, she ...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Knowledge and Perception
Anxious as I was, I was for a long time doomed to disappointment. Hans coolly drew it in, and with it a fish, which struggled violently to escape. "It...
Dracula / Bravery and Kindness
It seemed but poor comfort to so brave and unselfish a soul, and impulsively I bent over and kissed him. The tears rose in his eyes, and there was a m...
Dracula / Health and Hope
Last night she slept well all night, and did not disturb me once. The roses seem coming back already to her cheeks, though she is still sadly pale and...
Frankenstein / Alienation and Identity
The gentle words of Agatha and the animated smiles of the charming Arabian were not for me. The mild exhortations of the old man and the lively conver...
Pride and Prejudice / Interpersonal Tensions
Thoughtlessness, want of attention to other people’s feelings, and want of resolution, will do the business.” “And do you impute it to either of those...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Domestic Turmoil
Or should you rather that I sent James off to bed?” “Oh, no, no! I am so frightened about him!” It was not the first time that she had spoken to us of...
Pride and Prejudice / Social Tension
Collins’s offer was now nearly at an end, and Elizabeth had only to suffer from the uncomfortable feelings necessarily attending it, and occasionally ...
The War of the Worlds / Journey of Companionship
When it was clear to him that I meant to go alone—had reconciled myself to going alone—he suddenly roused himself to come. And all being quiet through...
Dracula / Gendered Emotions
Men and women are so different in manifestations of nervous strength or weakness! Then when his face grew grave and stern again I asked him why his mi...
Dracula / Conflict of Interest
Finally she went down on her knees and implored me not to go; at least to wait a day or two before starting. It was all very ridiculous but I did not ...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Intimacy and Vulnerability
To my surprise, or rather to my stupefaction, he placed it to my lips. I looked at him, with, I am sure, quite an idiotic expression.
Dracula / Domestic Tension
I left Quincey lying down after having a glass of wine, and told the cook to get ready a good breakfast. Then a thought struck me, and I went back to ...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Greed and Value
Returning to the Indian, whose small, sharp eyes, glistening with avarice, betrayed that with him it was only a question of how great a price he could...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Illness and Inquiry
“There is serious news this morning,” Lestrade observed. Turner, of the Hall, is so ill that his life is despaired of.” “An elderly man, I presume?” s...
Frankenstein / Desolation and Vulnerability
dark when I awoke; I felt cold also, and half frightened, as it were, instinctively, finding myself so desolate. Before I had quitted your apartment, ...
Pride and Prejudice / Social Dynamics Revealed
Darcy speaking to her.” “Ay, because she asked him at last how he liked Netherfield, and he could not help answering her; but she said he seemed very ...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Natures Anomaly
If my astonishment increased, my patience was well-nigh exhausted. What natural force could possibly have produced such abnormal and extraordinary pla...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Love and Loss
My family itself is so small that it will not take me long to describe it. When my dear wife died I felt that he was all I had to love. I could not be...
Frankenstein / Natures Fury
The most violent storm hung exactly north of the town, over the part of the lake which lies between the promontory of Belrive and the village of Copêt...
Gulliver's Travels / Existence and Indifference
With tools made of these flints, they likewise cut their hay, and reap their oats, which there grow naturally in several fields; the _Yahoos_ draw hom...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Marriage and Regret
Lestrade of Scotland Yard.” “You were not yourself at fault at all, then?” “From the first, two facts were very obvious to me, the one that the lady h...
Frankenstein / Emotional Resilience
They elevated me from all littleness of feeling, and although they did not remove my grief, they subdued and tranquillised it. In some degree, also, t...
Pride and Prejudice / Emotional Conflict
In spite of her deeply-rooted dislike, she could not be insensible to the compliment of such a man’s affection, and though her intentions did not vary...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Rationality and Fear
If, then, the steam remains in its normal or habitual state, if their energy does not increase, and if you add to this, the remark that the wind is no...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Colorless Existence
Upon their borders grew small treelike shrubs, such as are seen in the hot countries on our own inhabited globe. The one thing wanting in these plants...
Pride and Prejudice / Sisterly Confessions
I am afraid you will be angry.” “My dearest sister, now be, _be_ serious. Let me know everything that I am to know without delay. Will you tell me how...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Fear and Instability
"What fear you now?" "What do I fear now!" I cried in fierce and angry tones. "Do you not see that the walls of the shaft are in motion?