Wise words and wishes from "Shirley, A Tale" by Chartlotte Brontë and a postcard

Looking for some nice pics of my daughter on her birthday, I came across the card I got from her on Mother's Day 2012. She writes that she is just catching the first summer sun rays and reading the novel  "Nice work" of my favourite writer. Those days I used to read David Lodge and gave everyone his books as a gift.

Kristina is writing that the novel is not disappointing at all as it starts with the quotation from "Shirley" by Chartlotte Brontë:

 

  “Do you anticipate sentiment, and poetry, and reverie? Do you expect passion, and stimulus, and melodrama? Calm you expectations; reduce them to a lowly standard. Something real, cool, and solid lies before you; something unromantic as Monday morning, when all who have work wake with the consciousness that they must rise and betake themselves thereto.”

My daughter was always and still is the master of writing wishes. In the postcard she teasingly wishes me that every morning (doesn't matter if it is Monday, Tuesday, Wednestday etc.) seemed perfect to me and was the forerunner of a beatiful day. Perhaps not always easy, perhaps not always super cheerful, but so that every evening I could say to myself "it was a good day".

I wish the same to You and have a look like the whole novel begins ... what a good story :)

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Maybe you are interested in what there was on the postcard. There were beautiful Sunflowers by Vincent