He peered gloomily into a folio of maps. 'I always think…

“I must try to be charitable, Caroline thought: probably she doesn't mean to sound as if she is continually translating from Latin.”

— Jude Morgan

When you are in love- everything is romantic

— Jude Morgan

“To assume is to presume.”

— Jude Morgan

“I will do what I can”

— Jude Morgan

We always think we know what we want: when in truth there is nothing we are less likely to know.

— Jude Morgan

Really, I protest-what is left for the satirical mind to invent when reality so surpasses it?

— Jude Morgan

“You can greet even the dullest acquaintance with pleasure, if you have forgotten their dreary story.”

— Jude Morgan

But we disposable women have to be realistic in this life, you know. Else we get itchy and discontented and start contemplating the kitchen…

— Jude Morgan

“Matthew gave her such a hurt, wistful, nobly forbearing, and absolutely infuriating look that if Caroline had been a rich aunt she would have…

— Jude Morgan

“The stupidest people suddenly become a little cleverer when we learn that they think well of us”

— Jude Morgan

“I do not say that I could never be persuaded to sacrifice my reputation to passion- only that it would take a great deal.”

— Jude Morgan

“See? It's easy. Try. Try the exquisite pleasure of surprising yourself.”

— Jude Morgan

“Dullness it is that perverts and corrups the spirit but it is always possible to look past the dullness, and see the bright, shining…

— Jude Morgan

Love is the hardest thing to grasp. You have to seize it at once, else it may be too late.

— Jude Morgan

“To marry is to narrow one's possibilities horribly.”

— Jude Morgan