Quotes from George Eliot, Middlemarch

Her anger said, as anger is apt to say, that God was with her— that all heaven, though it were crowded with spirits watching them, must be on her side.

Destiny stands by sarcastic with our dramatis personae folded in her hand.

We all remember epochs in our experience when some dear expectation dies, or some new motive is born.

Fear was stronger than the calculation of probabilities.