Janet Aylmer > Quotes

“Lady Catherine quoting Lizzie Bennet:

She had the impudence to reply that, whilst these would be heavy misfortunes, your wife must have such extraordinary sources of happiness necessarily attached to her situation, that she could, upon the whole, have no cause to repine.”
― Janet Aylmer

“Amantium irae amoris integratio est

A Latin saying that means

Lovers’ quarrels are the renewal of love”
― Janet Aylmer, Sophie's Salvation

“One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life.

That word is love."

(Sophocles)

by Adam Harford, Duke of Harford,
from the last page of "Sophie's Salvation”
― Janet Aylmer, Sophie's Salvation

“I am not at all expirenced in the ways of the world, as you are. But it seems to me that people are of good breeding if they behave in a genteel manner; are thoughtful and considerate, and not because of who they are, or because they are always proud of how much money or consequence they possess. - Georgiana Darcy”
― Janet Aylmer, New Illustrated Darcy's Story

“There were so many other things that he could add, that he doubted whether life without her offered him any pleasure at all, that he had hoped to recreate the happiness that had existed between his own parents in his union with her.”
― Janet Aylmer, New Illustrated Darcy's Story

“When a man has been accustomed since his earliest years to command what he desires, a disappointment in matters nearest to his heart must come as more than a severe shock.”
― Janet Aylmer, New Illustrated Darcy's Story

“Dulcibus est verbis mollis alendus amor

which means


By soft words must love be fostered”
― Janet Aylmer, Sophie's Salvation

“Perhaps the best guide is treat people, everyone you meet with, with the politeness and consideration with which you would wish them to treat you? - Georgiana Darcy”
― Janet Aylmer, New Illustrated Darcy's Story