Governments and fashions come and go but Jane Eyre is for all time.

Ill-fitting grammar are like ill-fitting shoes. You can get used to it for a bit, but then one day your toes fall off and you can't walk to the bathroom.

I could almost see common sense and denial fighting away at each other within her. In the end, denial won, as it so often does.

If you expect me to believe that a lawyer wrote A Midsummer Night's Dream, I must be dafter than I look.

I wished I could share my own optimism.

Sometimes I don't know whether I'm thening or nowing.

Fiction wouldn't be much fun without its fair share of scoundrels, and they have to live somewhere.