“ So this, Harriet thought, gazing at her black-clad reflection, was what bearing up looked like. The eyes in the mirror stared at her, somehow, while fixing themselves far Jude Morgan
“ I confess I found it somewhat insipid when I last went....it was all so prosy - so bonnety - so whisty and teacuppy - you see, the adjectives for it do not even exist, and I must invent them. Jude Morgan
“ Anne’s is a world very like this one, and you can move about in it with familiarity - but not freedom: it is a place of rigorous consequence, where the weak have to give way to the strong, where her g… Jude Morgan
“ The stupidest people suddenly become a little cleverer when we learn that they think well of us Jude Morgan
“ It is painful to see someone suffering what you must be suffering- watching someone you love be so cruelly hurt. Jude Morgan
“ Curious creatures we mortals are-how we do not know what we want, or how to get it if we do. Jude Morgan
“ Probably no purer incitement to hatred existed, Lydia had found, than being told of anyone or anything: you will love him, her or it. The spirit immediately rose up like a fanged cobra. Jude Morgan
“ I make a rule never to remember anything before last week. It makes life more interesting Jude Morgan
“ Emily’s world fascinates and disturbs: in it you can touch thick Yorkshire speech, and moorland rain slants across your mind with a smell of mossy limestone and yet you are not at home, you might almo… Jude Morgan
“ A balance, I think, is needed , " Dr. Templeton said judiciously,"between the head and the heart: nothing easier to say: nothing harder to achieve. Jude Morgan
“ Really, I protest--what is left for the satirical mind to invent when reality so surpasses it? Jude Morgan