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“Time will explain.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

“I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control. ”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“She was one of those, who, having, once begun, would be always in love.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“Beware how you give your heart.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“Every moment has its pleasures and its hope.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“Adieu to disappointment and spleen. What are men to rocks and mountains?”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“I assure you. I have no notion of treating men with such respect. That is the way to spoil them.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“Let us have the luxury of silence.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“Indulge your imagination in every possible flight.”
― Jane Austen

“Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“Every savage can dance.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Mr. Darcy began to feel the danger of paying Elizabeth too much attention.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked.”
― Jane Austen

“What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.”
― Jane Austen

“I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness."

-Edward Ferrars”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again.”
― Jane Austen

“What a shame, for I dearly love to laugh.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“I have no talent for certainty.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“I do not find it easy to talk to people I don't know.”
― Fitwilliam Darcy, Pride and Prejudice

“And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.”
― Jane Austen

“Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“Después de un tiempo, uno aprende la sutil diferencia entre sostener una mano y encadenar un alma, y uno aprende que el amor no significa acostarse y una compañía no significa seguridad, y uno empieza a aprender...

Que los besos no son contratos y los regalos no son promesas, y uno empieza a aceptar sus derrotas con la cabeza alta y los ojos abiertos, y uno aprende a construir todos sus caminos en el hoy, porque el terreno de mañana es demasiado inseguro para planes...y los futuros tienen una forma de caerse en la mitad.

Y después de un tiempo uno aprende que si es demasiado, hasta el calor del sol quema. Así que uno planta su propio jardín y decora su propia alma, en lugar de esperar a que alguien le traiga flores. Y uno aprende que realmente puede aguantar, que uno realmente es fuerte, que uno realmente vale, y uno aprende y aprende... y con cada día uno aprende. Con el tiempo aprendes que estar con alguien porque te ofrece un buen futuro, significa que tarde o temprano querrás volver a tu pasado.”
― Jorge Luis Borges.

“You don’t want to hear the story
of my life, and anyway
I don’t want to tell it, I want to listen

to the enormous waterfalls of the sun.

And anyway it’s the same old story - - -
a few people just trying,
one way or another,
to survive.

Mostly, I want to be kind.
And nobody, of course, is kind,
or mean,
for a simple reason.

And nobody gets out of it, having to
swim through the fires to stay in
this world.

(from, Dogfish)”
― Mary Oliver

“We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change. The sun might shine, or the clouds might lour: but nothing could appear to me as it had done the day before.”
― Mary Shelley