Abby

“You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“You examine me, Miss Eyre", said he. "Do you think me handsome?"
I should have deliberated, have replied to this question by something conventionally vague and polite; but the answer somehow slipped from my tongue before I was aware: "No, sir.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“I cannot make speeches, Emma...If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me. I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“I’m not like Evangeline. I haven’t been looking for love around every corner. I haven’t felt like something was missing or I wasn’t whole simply because I didn’t have a man in my life. While I believe in love and marriage and have wanted both, my life hasn’t been on hold, waiting to start until the time when I could share it with one specific person. Instead, I like to think I’ve been sharing it with everyone around me. That I’ve found fulfillment in myself, and because of that, I have more now to give because of my own contentment.”
― Sarah Monzon, Bookmarked for Love