It taught me that no love, not even that of a man for his wife may be so deep and terrible and self-sacrificing as the love of a father for his daughter.
Tarzan of the Apes, Edgar Rice Burroughs
When you’re human, Ark, I love you; but somehow it seems as though you had forgotten how to be human for the last twenty years.
Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes
Ah, John, i wish that I might be a man with a man’s philosophy, but I am but a woman seeing with my heart rather than my head, and all that I can see is too horrible, too unthinkable to put into words.
Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes
As she took up the little live baby of Alice Clayton she dropped the dead body of her own into the empty cradle; for the wail of the living had answered the call of universal motherhood within her wild breast which the dead could not still.
Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes
