Status Updates From Persuasion

"It stood the record of many sensations of pain, once severe, but now softened; and of some instances of relenting feeling, some breathings of friendship and reconciliation, which could never be looked for again, and which could never cease to be dear. She left it all behind her; all but the recollection that such things had been."

I have so many feelings.

Austen is unforgiving. Everything feels too relatable. The narcissism. The subtle caution. The side-eye.