"When the wind is blowing and the..." - Quote by Charles Dickens

“Poverty and oysters always seem to go together.”

“I'll tell you," said she, in the same hurried passionate whisper, "what real love it. It is blind devotion, unquestioning self-humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your whole heart and soul to the smiter - as I did!”

“We changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me.”

“The world was reduced to the surface of her skin and her inner self was safe from all bitterness.”

“You can ask goodness in, show it how much you like it, make room for it. And it says, "Oh, I like this place, I think I'll stay here." Which is why people go into one house and say, "I want to take my shoes off." At another house, no matter how beautiful it is, they might say, "Hmm, I can't stay."”

“To like things like, whatever one may ail; There is certain help.”

“Tis the good reader that makes the good book.”

“The biggest thing I did was that I used to go to the library. I fed my mind every day.”

“Mr. Arthur Ashe, he was good. I read some of his books. He knew about everything, but he was real quiet and didn't talk much. I never met him.”