One hesitates to open a new chapter when the old one is not resolved.Collection: Chapters
No expectations mean there is no risk of disappointment.Collection: Disappointment
It is our feelings that guide us and they can never lead us wrongCollection: Feelings
I can always forgive where I understand.Collection: Understanding
If someone tries to use you as a tool, you shouldn't mind it, because it is their choice and folly, not yours.Collection: Choices
To marry is to narrow one's possibilities horribly.Collection: Possibility
But we disposable women have to be realistic in this life, you know. Else we get itchy and discontented and start contemplating the kitchen knife and wondering whether it wouldn't look nicer between someone's shoulder-blades.Collection: Knives
A girl should set her sights on a man who has money; or if not, who can expect to come into money; or if not, who has moneyed connections.Collection: Girl
You cannot believe everything you hearCollection: Believe
I love you more than I can express, or can ever hope to expressCollection: I Love You More
I am afraid I shall disappoint people's expectations dreadfully.Collection: People
Everything about everybody was very soon known by everybody else.Collection: Known
People argue themselves out of their pleasuresCollection: People
We always think we know what we want: when in truth there is nothing we are less likely to know.Collection: Thinking
Really, I protest-what is left for the satirical mind to invent when reality so surpasses it?Collection: Reality
Grown people with rational minds somehow do not know what's best for them.Collection: People
I am no faint-heart when it comes to the unpleasant truth. Indeed I have always taken a bracing sort of pleasure in facing it.Collection: Taken
Love is the hardest thing to grasp. You have to seize it at once, else it may be too late.Collection: Love Is
That's the way girls are isn't it? They swear eternal friendship, and then as soon as a man's in the case it's all forgotten.Collection: Girl
Society can only hurt if you care for its opinionCollection: Hurt
It is presumptuous to draw conclusions about a person from what one has heardCollection: Conclusion
I have never understood why a woman must have a man to take her into dinner.Collection: Men
It is not always easy, for a woman alone.Collection: Easy
None of us like to think we are silly. But all must acknowledge that they are capable of silliness, from time to timeCollection: Silly
It is painful to see someone suffering what you must be suffering- watching someone you love be so cruelly hurt.Collection: Hurt
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.Collection: Strong
When you are in love- everything is romantic.Collection: Romance