“My life would be sour grapes and ashes without you”

“i see said the duke but my own idear is that these things are as piffle before the wind [from memory...]”

“Mr Salteena was an elderly man of 42 and was fond of asking people to stay with him”

“I told you, you're my black pearl. When i first set eyes on you in the servant's hall I thought you were the most beautiful thing I had ever seen in my life.”

“Feminism is comprised of values that are important to you as a woman, not ideals arrived at by forced consensus to which you should adjust your own life.”

“No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies.”

“The property is cursed. Death dwells here. These rivers run with the blood of those who came before you. Life may not trespass, and when it tries, it will surely be snuffed out.”