Beautiful Sentences: Harriet Beecher Stowe

Of course, in a novel, people’s hearts break, and they die, and that is the end of it; and in a story this is very convenient. But in real life we do not die when all that makes life bright dies to us. There is a most busy and important round of eating, drinking, dressing, walking, visiting, buying, selling, talking, reading, and all that makes up what is commonly called living,  yet to be gone through; and this yet remained to Augustine.

Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin


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