“I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be...yours.”
― Sense and Sensibility
― Sense and Sensibility
“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
“Color directly influences the soul. Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammers, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another purposively, to cause vibrations in the soul.”
― Concerning the Spiritual in Art
― Concerning the Spiritual in Art
“I have always had a liking for pilgrimages, and if I had lived in the Middle Ages would have spent most of my time on the way to Rome. The pilgrims, leaving all their cares at home, the anxieties of their riches or their debts, the wife that worried and the children that disturbed, took only their sins with them, and turning back on their obligations, set out with that sole burden, and perhaps a cheerful heart.”
― Elizabeth and Her German Garden
― Elizabeth and Her German Garden
“Every body allows that the talent of writing agreeable letters is peculiarly female.”
― Northanger Abbey
― Northanger Abbey
Jane Austen
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