Quotes from Jude Morgan

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.

And what does she mean by love, anyway? People use that word and mean all sorts of things by it.

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.

You have made him live.

Love is the hardest thing to grasp. You have to seize it at once, else it may be too late.

I love you more than I can express, or can ever hope to express

Probably 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.

The stupidest people suddenly become a little cleverer when we learn that they think well of us

There are some people who like nothing better than a good, regular quarrel.

Curious creatures we mortals are-how we do not know what we want, or how to get it if we do.

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

I have striven never to betray myself

Emily'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.

I do not say that I could never be persuaded to sacrifice my reputation to passion- only that it would take a great deal.

Perhaps grown women are beings of a good deal more complexity than cats

I make a rule never to remember anything before last week. It makes life more interesting

You can greet even the dullest acquaintance with pleasure, if you have forgotten their dreary story.

No young woman of good breeding should show exclusive partiality to one partner all night.

Words are only words

We shall live, love and be happy as mortals can be

I must try to be charitable, Caroline thought: probably she doesn't mean to sound as if she is continually translating from Latin.

I have been run over by the speeding chariot of fate, caught up in its spiked wheels." - "I hate it when that happens," said Stephen.

But then she often felt like this lately. The world seemed full of transparent frauds that only she could see through. She was forever shouting from the hustings of honesty, though if any honesty were directed at her she ran from it horrified. And she knew it, laughed at herself for it, wretchedly. She was all to pieces.

To marry is to narrow one's possibilities horribly.