Abby Rose

“And to ask me in such a way too! without ceremony, before them all, so as to leave me no possibility of refusing! That is what I dislike most particularly. It raises my spleen more than anything, to have the pretense of being asked, of being given a choice, and at the same time addressed in such a way as to oblige one to do the very thing—whatever it be!”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“Jess liked words. She collected them. In her favorite books, it was always in words that true power lurked, whether the enchantments and curses of the fairy tales she’d devoured when she was small, or the wills and deeds and legal loopholes she’d discovered in Dickens.”
― Kate Morton, Homecoming

“Her mind was quite determined and varied not.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“But then I am unlike other people I dare say.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park