“'I wonder if any other girl thinks her father the best man in the world!'
'Nonsense, child; you'll think your husband better.'
'Impossible...'”
More from George Eliot
“I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved.”
“I meant to go away into silence, but I have not been able to do what I meant.”
“It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.”
“What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?”