We always think we know what we want: when in truth there is nothing we are less likely to know.

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.

Society can only hurt if you care for its opinion