“She was convinced that she could have been happy with him, when it was no longer likely they should meet.”
― Pride and Prejudice
― Pride and Prejudice
“There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison”
― Persuasion
― Persuasion
“Yes; he had done it. She was in the carriage, and felt that he had placed her there, that his will and his hands had done it, that she owed it to his perception of her fatigue, and his resolution to give her rest. She was very much affected by the view of his disposition towards her, which all these things made apparent. This little circumstance seemed the completion of all that had gone before. She understood him. He could not forgive her, but he could not be unfeeling. Though condemning her for the past, and considering it with high and unjust resentment, though perfectly careless of her, and though becoming attached to another, still he could not see her suffer without the desire of giving her relief. It was a remainder of some former sentiment, it was an impulse of pure, though unacknowledged friendship; it was a proof of his own warm and amiable heart, which she could not contemplate without emotions so compounded of pleasure and pain, that she knew not which prevailed.”
― Persuasion
― Persuasion
“Know your own happiness.”
― Sense and Sensibility
― Sense and Sensibility
“Time will explain.”
― Persuasion
― Persuasion
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