Mary

“Vanity working on a weak head produces every sort of mischief.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”
― Annie Dillard, The Writing Life

“Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply; and it must be by a long and unnatural estrangement, by a divorce which no subsequent connection can justify, if such precious remains of the earliest attachments are ever entirely outlived.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park