Wentworth Quotes

“Captain Wentworth, without saying a word,
turned to her, and quietly obliged her to be assisted into the carriage.

Yes; he had done it. She was in the carriage, and felt that he had
placed her there, that his will and his hands had done it,
that she owed it to his perception of her fatigue, and his resolution
to give her rest. She was very much affected by the view of
his disposition towards her, which all these things made apparent.
This little circumstance seemed the completion of all that had gone before.
She understood him. He could not forgive her, but he could not
be unfeeling. Though condemning her for the past, and considering it
with high and unjust resentment, though perfectly careless of her,
and though becoming attached to another, still he could not see her suffer,
without the desire of giving her relief. It was a remainder
of former sentiment; it was an impulse of pure, though unacknowledged
friendship; it was a proof of his own warm and amiable heart,
which she could not contemplate without emotions so compounded
of pleasure and pain, that she knew not which prevailed.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

“e Anne Elliot não estava ausente de seus pensamentos quando ele descreveu com grande seriedade a mulher que gostaria de conhecer. 'Uma mente decidida e modos doces', tal era o início e o fim de sua descrição. - É essa a mulher que eu quero - disse ele.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you with a heart even more your own, than when you almost broke it eight years and a half ago.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

“How do you prove to a woman that you loved her, when she was certain you didn't?”
― Joan Johnston, Wyoming Bride