I have never understood why a woman must have a man to take her into dinner.

Society can only hurt if you care for its opinion

If someone tries to use you as a tool, you shouldn't mind it, because it is their choice and folly, not yours.

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