An assassination attempt, the police were calling it. As if Momma were the president of the United States. Who assassinated a middle-aged novelist? I suppose if she wrote horror stories or trashy novels or something defaming a religion,
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“Know your own happiness.”
― Sense and Sensibility
― Sense and Sensibility
“It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.”
― Sense and Sensibility
― Sense and Sensibility
“Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.”
― Sense and Sensibility
― Sense and Sensibility
“I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness. [...] Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other. If I could persuade myself that my manners were perfectly easy and graceful, I should not be shy.”
― Sense and Sensibility
― Sense and Sensibility
“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
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