Sharon Derlan

“Thus much indeed he was obliged to acknowledge - that he had been constant unconsciously, nay unintentionally; that he had meant to forget her, and believed it to be done. He had imagined himself indifferent, when he had only been angry; and he had been unjust to her merits, because he had been a sufferer from them.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

“She felt that she could so much more depend upon the sincerity of those who sometimes looked or said a careless or a hasty thing, than of those whose presence of mind never varied, whose tongue never slipped.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

“You know that men can love forever. Please belive that my love could never end.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

“Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion