Em

“...there could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison, no countenances so beloved. Now they were as strangers; nay, worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted. It was perpetual estrangement.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

“She had used him ill; deserted and disappointed him; and worse, she had shewn a feebleness of character in doing so, which his own decided, confident temper could not endure. She had given him up to oblige others. It had been the effect of over-persuasion. It had been weakness and timidity.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

“The last few hours were certainly very painful...but when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure. One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering...”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion