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"It is all very well to talk about noble resistance, and trials of virtue; but for fifty—or five hundred men that have yielded to temptation, show me one that has had virtue to resist. And why should I take it for granted that my son will be one in a thousand?—and not rather prepare for the worst, and suppose he will be like his—like the rest of mankind, unless I take care to prevent it?"

AHAHA YES. HELEN IS _SO_ CODEPENDENT. I <3 her.

Good heavens—I *am* her.

Just stayed up until 2:30 am finishing this and, despite its preposterous Brontë last-hundred-pages-melodrama-and-improbable-resolution...the first 200 pages ARE MY LIFE right now, I feel.

I love how she poisons her son, heh heh.

unnarrator wrote: "despite its preposterous Brontë last-hundred-pages-melodrama-and-improbable-resolution...the first 200 pages ARE MY LIFE right now, I feel."

YEAH Anne was pretty dead on the money. Her social observation skills are incisive.

I love how she poisons her son, heh heh.

I think Anne is also the only Bronte sister to really show a mother-child relationship - Charlotte's girls are all orphans and if they are mothers, it's offstage at the end, and Cathy and Heathcliff are so singular it's almost more like they're archetypes (altho Emily does bratty child behaviour very well). Sentiment says Anne was the one who actually liked children....