Miranda

“who had taken a violent fancy to me, mistaking me for something vastly better than I was.”
― Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

“No; for instead of delivering myself up to the full enjoyment of them as others do, I am always troubling my head about how I could produce the same effect upon canvas; and as that can never be done, it is more vanity and vexation of spirit.”
― Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

“He never could have loved me, or he would not have resigned me so willingly”
― Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

“I imagine there must be only a very, very few men in the world, that I should like to marry; and of those few, it is ten to one I may never be acquainted with one; or if I should, it is twenty to one he may not happen to be single, or to take a fancy to me.”
― Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall