We shall live, love and be happy as mortals can be
Jude MorganTags: life
One wouldn't wish to tempt fate
Jude MorganTags: fate
And what does she mean by love, anyway? People use that word and mean all sorts of things by it.
Jude MorganTags: love thoughtful
See? It's easy. Try. Try the exquisite pleasure of surprising yourself.
Jude MorganBut 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.
Jude MorganTags: women discontent
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.
Jude MorganTags: imagination darkness
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.
Jude MorganTags: strong weakness familiarity consequence
No amount of parental protectiveness could overcome the fact that she was very ready to be dazzled.
Jude MorganKeats was getting a reputation just when he was too ill to appreciate it or build on it: his country was taking notice of him just when he would have to leave it.
Jude MorganTags: death appreciation illness reputation
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.
Jude MorganTags: adolescence-wit-wisdom
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