The Mill on the Floss

by George Eliot

It is mere cowardice to seek safety in negations. No character becomes strong in that way.

But it isn't for that that I'm jealous for the dark women,–not because I'm dark myself; it's because I always care the most about the unhappy people. If the blond girl were forsaken, I should like her best. I always take the side of the rejected lover in the stories."