22 November: George Eliot quotes

George Eliot, author of seven novels: Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, Romola, Felix Holt, the Radical, Middlemarch and Daniel Deronda, was born on this date in 1819. 10 quotes from her:

1. It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
2. No man can be wise on an empty stomach.
3. Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
4. The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness.
5. It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
6. Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
7. What we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
8. It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
9. Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning.
10. One can say everything best over a meal.

See also: Facts about George Eliot

Killing Me Softly

Sebastian Garrett is an assassin. It wasn’t his first choice of vocation, but nonetheless, he’s good at it, and can be relied upon to get the job done. He’s on top of his game.

Until he is contracted to kill Princess Helena of Galorvia. She is not just any princess. Sebastian doesn’t bargain on his intended victim being a super-heroine who gives as good as she gets. Only his own genetic variant power saves him from becoming the victim, instead of Helena. 

Fate has another surprise in store. Sebastian was not expecting to fall in love with her.

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