Anne Brontë Quote

In love affairs, there is no mediator like a merry, simple-hearted child - ever ready to cement divided hearts, to span the unfriendly gulf of custom, to melt the ice of cold reserve, and overthrow the separating walls of dread formality and pride.

Gilbert Markham (Ch. X : A Contract and a Quarrel) - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)