“Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart.”
― Pride and Prejudice
― Pride and Prejudice
“I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.”
― Sense and Sensibility
― Sense and Sensibility
“It sometimes is a disadvantage to be so very guarded. If a woman conceals her affection from the object of it, she may loose the opportunity of fixing him.”
― Pride and Prejudice
― Pride and Prejudice
“Life, if you live it right, keeps surprising you, and the thing that keeps surprising you the most…is yourself”
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“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 unjest 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 former sentiment; it was an impuse 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
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