“She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.”
More from George Eliot
“I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved.”
“I meant to go away into silence, but I have not been able to do what I meant.”
“It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.”
“What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?”