Daddy-Long-Legs / Dear Enemy Quotes

“Don't let politeness interfere with truth”
― Jean Webster, Daddy-Long-Legs / Dear Enemy

“It makes me almost hope I'm not a genius; they must be very wearying to have about - and awfully destructive to the furniture.”
― Jean Webster, Daddy-Long-Legs / Dear Enemy

“I like to pretend that you belong to me, just to play with the idea, but of course I know you don't. I'm alone, really-with my back to the wall fighting the world-and I get sort of gaspy when I think about it. I put it out of my mind, and keep on pretending ~”
― Jean Webster, Daddy-Long-Legs / Dear Enemy

“The way people are forever rolling their eyes to heaven and saying, “Perhaps it’s all for the best,” when they are perfectly dead sure it’s not, makes me enraged. Humility or resignation or whatever you choose to call it, is simply impotent inertia.”
― Jean Webster, Daddy-Long-Legs / Dear Enemy