Maddy Scott

“Novelists should never allow themselves to weary of the study of real life. If they observed this duty conscientiously, they would give us fewer pictures chequered with vivid contrasts of light and shade; they would seldom elevate their heroes and heroines to the heights of rapture — still seldomer sink them to the depths of despair; for if we rarely taste the fulness of joy in this life, we yet more rarely savour the acrid bitterness of hopeless anguish.”
― Charlotte Brontë, The Professor

“She has done for me at last, Rachel my torment.”
― Daphne du Maurier, My Cousin Rachel

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

“my courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice