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Maggie Tulliver quotes

A character in The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

4 quotes spoken by or about Maggie Tulliver, each verified verbatim against the text and located in the book.

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In their death they were not divided.
— George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss (1860)
The boat reappeared, but brother and sister had gone down in an embrace never to be parted; living through again in one supreme moment the days when they had clasped their little hands in love, and roamed the daisied fields together.
— Narrator of George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss (1860)
“Character,” says Novalis, in one of his questionable aphorisms,—“character is destiny.” But not the whole of our destiny.
— Narrator of George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss (1860)
You will find no home with me. You have disgraced us all. You have disgraced my father’s name.
— Tom Tulliver · Tom Tulliver in George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss (1860)

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