“He knows he is my sun, but when he chooses to withhold his light, he would have my sky to be all darkness; he cannot bear that I should have a moon to mitigate the deprivation.”
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XXVI : The Guests; Helen Graham
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Anne Brontë 148
British novelist and poet 1820–1849Related quotes

A Tree Telling of Orpheus (1968)
Context: He told of journeys,
of where sun and moon go while we stand in dark,
of an earth-journey he dreamed he would take some day
deeper than roots...
He told of the dreams of man, wars, passions, griefs,
and I, a tree, understood words – ah, it seemed
my thick bark would split like a sapling's that
grew too fast in the spring
when a late frost wounds it.

Quoted, This Side of Paradise (1920)

As quoted in Denise Worrell (1989), Icons: Intimate Portraits.
Source: The Pure Weight of the Heart (1998), P. 131.