Maisy

“What a fool you must be," said my head to my heart, or my sterner to my softer self.”
― Anne bronte, Agnes Grey

“A little girl loves her bird--Why? Because it lives and feels; because it is helpless and harmless? A toad, likewise, lives and feels, and is equally helpless and harmless; but though she would not hurt a toad, she cannot love it like the bird, with its graceful form, soft feathers, and bright, speaking eyes.”
― Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey

“If we can only speak to slander our betters, let us hold our tongues.”
― Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

“What business had I to think of one that never thought of me?”
― Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey