“I can always forgive where I understand.”

“I will do what I can”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“He peered gloomily into a folio of maps. 'I always think Brazil is too big.”

“Love is always unexpected”