| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Montezuma's Daughter by H. Rider Haggard: with me yet, when, old and withered, I stand upon the borders of
the grave. It was the greatest joy that has been given to me in
all my days. Too soon, alas! it was done, that first pure kiss of
youthful love--and I spoke again somewhat aimlessly.
'It seems then that you do love me who love you so well.'
'If you doubted it before, can you doubt it NOW?' she answered very
softly. 'But listen, Thomas. It is well that we should love each
other, for we were born to it, and have no help in the matter, even
if we wished to find it. Still, though love be sweet and holy, it
is not all, for there is duty to be thought of, and what will my
father say to this, Thomas?'
Montezuma's Daughter |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Spirit of the Border by Zane Grey: "What does it mean?" cried Jim.
"Your brother Joe and Whispering Winds lie in the spring," answered Jonathan
Zane. "Girty murdered them, and Wetzel buried the two there."
"Oh, is it true?" cried Nell.
"True, lass," whispered Jim, brokenly, holding out his arms to her. Indeed,
he needed her strength as much as she needed his. The girl gave one shuddering
glance at the spring, and then hid her face on her husband's shoulder.
"Delaware, we are sworn foes," cried Wetzel.
"Wingenund asks no mercy."
"Are you a Christian?"
"Wingenund is true to his race."
The Spirit of the Border |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson: resumed the lawyer.
"I thought it looked like it," said the servant rather
sulkily; and then, with another voice, "But what matters hand of
write?" he said. "I've seen him!"
"Seen him?" repeated Mr. Utterson. "Well?"
"That's it!" said Poole. "It was this way. I came suddenly
into the theater from the garden. It seems he had slipped out to
look for this drug or whatever it is; for the cabinet door was
open, and there he was at the far end of the room digging among
the crates. He looked up when I came in, gave a kind of cry, and
whipped upstairs into the cabinet. It was but for one minute that
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde |
