Quotes from "A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens

Hereforth, I quote a few sentences from some of the books that I have read that have impressed me a great deal. Make no mistake for I am no literary critic, I just enjoy a wide range of books in my own simple way.

"A picture is worth a thousand words" it is said but creating a picture in one's mind with those thousand words seems to me to be no easy task. Hence, I savour it when done and the quotes that I speak of are some such.

Today's book of interest: "A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens

"A man of a strong resolution and a set purpose; a man not desirable to be met, rushing down a narrow pass with a gulf on either side, for nothing would turn the man."
This, describing a man of great will and determination.

"The faintness of the voice was pitiable and dreadful. It was not the faintness of physical weakness. Its deplorable peculiarity was that it was the faintness of solitude and disuse. It was like the last and feeble echo of a sound made long and long ago. So entirely had it lost the life and resonance of the human voice, that it affected the senses like a once beautiful colour faded away into a poor weak stain. So sunken and suppressed it was, that it was like a voice underground. So expressive it was, of a hopeless and lost creature, that a famished traveller, wearied out by lonely wandering in a wilderness, would have remembered home and friends in such a tone before lying down to die."
This, describing a prisoner shut in solitary confinement for years together - a prisoner convicted of crimes he had never commited, a prisoner who was once a honourable man earning his honest bread, a prisoner separated from his wife he had loved so dearly and a daughter unborn.