Authors:

How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me.

Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.453, Penguin
How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me.