03UndatedReally, I protest--what is left for the satirical mind to invent when reality so surpasses it?Jude Morgan / quote ↗
05UndatedSo 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 farJude Morgan / quote ↗
06UndatedA 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 / quote ↗
07UndatedEmily’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 almost be in Gondal or Angria except the towers and the dungeons are of the spirit, the dungeons especially; and sometimes when Emily reads out in her low, almost guttural voice Charlotte wants to run but can’t think why or where she would run to.Jude Morgan / quote ↗
08UndatedI make a rule never to remember anything before last week. It makes life more interestingJude Morgan / quote ↗
12UndatedProbably 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 / quote ↗
13UndatedCurious creatures we mortals are-how we do not know what we want, or how to get it if we do.Jude Morgan / quote ↗
14UndatedIt is painful to see someone suffering what you must be suffering- watching someone you love be so cruelly hurt.Jude Morgan / quote ↗
15UndatedThe stupidest people suddenly become a little cleverer when we learn that they think well of usJude Morgan / quote ↗
19UndatedAnne’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 governess heroine Agnes must walk as best she can in the cold shade of money and masculinity.Jude Morgan / quote ↗
20UndatedI 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 / quote ↗
