“All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one: you need not covet it), is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone!”
― Persuasion
― Persuasion
“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.”
― Persuasion
― Persuasion
“How quick come the reasons for approving what we like.”
― Persuasion
― Persuasion
“She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.”
― Persuasion
― Persuasion
“We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us.”
― Persuasion
― Persuasion
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