Truth with a capital T from Charlotte

Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)

"Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education"

Body and soul in mutiny

Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)

"Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour..."

The more fashionable side....

From Man of Property, volume 1 of the Forsyte Saga (John Galsworthy)

"All these ladies had shoulder-straps and no tulle--thus showing at once, by a bolder exposure of flesh, that they came from the more fashionable side of the Park."

Jane to Mr. Rochester

Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)

"...wherever you are is my home—my only home."

And that is the definition of true love.

Yes, I went THERE.

I went to Forks. I occasionally stray from the 19th century. I didn't love Stephanie Meyer's vampire series but I did enjoy it. In fact, I liked the first two books quite a bit.

Here's what bears repeating:

Twilight (The Twilight Saga, Book 1) (Stephenie Meyer)

“The wasting of finite resources is everyone’s business.”

Yes, Edward. It is. Such truth from a vampire!

A man who need not conquer

The Mysteries of Udolpho byAnn Ward Radcliffe

"of fishing-tackle he had no use, for he never could find amusement in torturing or destroying."