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21 " No expectations mean there is no risk of disappointment. "
― , Indiscretion
22 " I am afraid I shall disappoint people's expectations dreadfully. "
23 " 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. "
― , The Taste of Sorrow
24 " I confess I found it somewhat insipid when I last went....it was all so prosy - so bonnety - so whisty and teacuppy - you see, the adjectives for it do not even exist, and I must invent them. "
― , An Accomplished Woman
25 " One hesitates to open a new chapter when the old one is not resolved. "
26 " Everything about everybody was very soon known by everybody else. "
27 " I am all or nothing "
28 " It is not always easy, for a woman alone. "
29 " Country picnics always sound nicer than they are. I think we should just have the idea of them, and be pleased with it, and then not go. The only true pleasures are indoors, artificial, and untainted with healthiness. "
30 " To assume is to presume. "
31 " We always think we know what we want: when in truth there is nothing we are less likely to know. "
32 " Love is always unexpected "
33 " There can be few places more conducive to the quiet, solitary contemplation of melancholy thoughts than a window-seat; and if beyond the window-panes there is a steely vignette of November murk and withered twigs, so much the better. "
34 " She simply cannot let go of love- and who can blame that? Is it not the hardest thing in the world to relinquish, once you have it? "
35 " You have made him live. "
36 " Love is the hardest thing to grasp. You have to seize it at once, else it may be too late. "
37 " I love you more than I can express, or can ever hope to express "
38 " There are some people who like nothing better than a good, regular quarrel. "
39 " I do not declare that I have no intention of marrying on any general principle. If I were to see the right man, no doubt I should eat my words with a ready appetite. The simple fact is, I have never seen him yet, and at the age of thirty, reason inclines me rather to conclude that he does not exist, than to persist in the belief that he is still somewhere to be found "
40 " A balance, I think, is needed , " Dr. Templeton said judiciously,"between the head and the heart: nothing easier to say: nothing harder to achieve. "