“Pride and Prejudice opens with one of the most famous sentences ever written: "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." With these words, Jane Austen announced to her readers that they were about to meet such a man and the people eager to marry him off. What was more, they were going to have fun. The dark cynicism of Sense and Sensibility was largely gone, blown away by a clean, fresh wind.”
― Jane Austen: A Life Revealed
― Jane Austen: A Life Revealed
“I would have told her then she was the only thing that I could
love in this dying world but the simple word "love" itself already died and went away.”
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love in this dying world but the simple word "love" itself already died and went away.”
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“Boys think girls are like books, If the cover doesn't catch their eye they won't bother to read what's inside.”
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“This is what our love is––a sacred pattern of unbroken unity sewn flawlessly invisible inside all other images, thoughts, smells, and sounds.”
― The River of Winged Dreams
― The River of Winged Dreams
“If you can't make ends meet, meet them in the middle instead”
― The King of Rhyme
― The King of Rhyme
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