“Is lawlessness to be permitted, simply because it is effected with a certain style? Jane, Jane! Where are your finer sensibilities? All o'erthrown, by a man with a golden tongue and a mocking glance?”
“Jane decided he was certainly beautiful, with brown eyes and a well-shaped nose. It is a refreshing thing for an ordinary-looking woman to look at a beautiful man occasionally and Jane gave herself up to contemplation.”
“Who do you think you are, Jane Eyre? Grow up. Be sensible. Don't get carried away.”
“You are Spider-Man!” she exclaimed.Simon glanced down from his perch halfway up the pillar. “That makes you Mary Jane. She has redhair,”
“Now I was more certain than ever of my decision. I could not love a man who did not love Jane Austen.”
“In so far as it takes effect at all, pacifist propaganda can only be effective against those countries where a certain amount of freedom of speech is still permitted; in other words it is helpful to totalitarianism.”