Grown people with rational minds somehow do not know what's best for them.

We can’t know what’s going to happen. We can just try to figure it out as we go along.
- Roger Sullivan

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 governess heroine Agnes must walk as best she can in the cold shade of money and masculinity.

It is painful to see someone suffering what you must be suffering- watching someone you love be so cruelly hurt.

You cannot believe everything you hear

One hesitates to open a new chapter when the old one is not resolved.