Silas Marner

• How was a man to be explained unless you at least knew somebody who knew his father and mother?
• He never strolled into the village to drink a pint at the rainbow
• A man's soul being loose from his body
• Silas was both sane and honest
• God will clear me
• There is no just God that governs the earth righteously, but a God of lies
• Benumbed faith
• Men who lived in careless abundance
• He seemed to weave, like the spider, from pure impulse without reflection
• His life narrowing and hardening itself more and more into a mere pulsation of desire and satisfaction.
• The Raveloe imagination having never ventured back to that fearful blank when there were no Osgoods
• Fine, open-faced, good-natured young man
• We've always been so fond of quarrelling
• His natural irresolution and moral cowardice
• Seemed to enjoy his drink the more when other people went dry
• Dunstan's diabolical cunning
• In a home where the hearth had no smiles
• For joy is the best of wine, and Silas's guineas were a golden wine of that sort
• Not caring to fasten his door; for he felt if he had nothing left to lose
• The man's run mad
• He'll never be hurt - he's made to hurt other people
• Withering desolation of that bereavement
• Continued motionless in his previous attitude
• His heart had been as a locked casket with its treasure inside
• The fountains of human love and divine faith had not yet been unlocked
• True and pure woman
• One dance with you matters more to me than all other pleasures in the world
• Trembling with an emotion mysterious to him
• Unlike the gold which needed nothing; Eppie was a creature of endless claims
• The little child had come to link him once more with the whole world
• He's the best of husbands
• I can't feel as I've got any father but one