C.P. Odom > Quotes

“What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.” — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy, Russian author”
― C.P. Odom, Pride, Prejudice & Secrets

“now I wonder whether I am not doing exactly as Colonel Fitzwilliam said: interfering in Jane’s life much as Mr. Darcy did when he convinced his friend to stay in town and not return. Am I making everything worse?”
― C.P. Odom, Determination

“Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures — Samuel Johnson”
― C.P. Odom, Determination

“So I shall stop making myself sad and despondent about what IS NOT and simply enjoy what IS, and let the future take care of itself.”
― C.P. Odom, Determination

“That is unfair, sir,” she replied gravely. “We can only deal with the life we have to live, not the one we would like to have lived.”
― C.P. Odom, Determination

“While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions — Stephen R. Covey”
― C.P. Odom, Determination

“A postal rider travelled only about three miles in an hour, and even the usual express rider could only manage to increase that to four miles.”
― C.P. Odom, Determination

“So, when her mother turned away and could not see her, she gave in to temptation and stuck her tongue out at Darcy.”
― C.P. Odom, Determination

“My love loves me, and all the wonders I see;
A rainbow shines in my window; my love loves me. — “Plaisir”
― C.P. Odom, Determination

“Perhaps if I can entice him into discussing something other than trivialities—with a few glasses of brandy thrown into the mix—I might learn something about what is affecting him. After all, as is said: in vino, veritas.”
― C.P. Odom, Determination

“Mr. Bingley will have to put some salve on his wounds,”
― C.P. Odom, Determination

“There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved. It is God's finger on man's shoulder — Charles Morgan”
― C.P. Odom, Determination

“his coach would travel faster than an express rider”
― C.P. Odom, Determination

“You know when you have found your prince because you not only have a smile on your face but in your heart as well. — Author Unknown”
― C.P. Odom, Determination

“his disastrous proposal at Hunsford.”
― C.P. Odom, Determination

“Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come. — Lord Byron”
― C.P. Odom, Determination

“If I am not worth the wooing, I am surely not worth the winning. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”
― C.P. Odom, Determination

“It has only been an hour and already I miss you terribly. Please come to me as soon as may be.”
― C.P. Odom, Determination

“Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe”
― C.P. Odom, Determination

“boring people are the first to be bored. Are you a boring person, Caroline?”
― C.P. Odom, Determination

“She had nothing from her own experience to guide her since her mother had been completely inept in managing the Longbourn household, but she could not let that daunt her.”
― C.P. Odom, Determination

“Mr. Darcy…sir,” she stammered, the words so urgent that they tumbled over each other in her mind, forcing her to start over. “Mr. Darcy…you…you must allow me to say how much I…I admire you…and…and love you!”
― C.P. Odom, Determination

“Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course. — George Eliot”
― C.P. Odom, Determination