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Ch. 24/24

The Austen reread is finished!!! Persuasion, I love you.

QOTD: “Who can be in doubt of what followed? When any two young people take it into their heads to marry, they are pretty sure by perseverance to carry their point.”

Ch. 23/24

No confession of love in literature can ever top this.

QOTD: “You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope.”

Ch. 22/24

QOTD: “You need not tell her so, but I thought her dress hideous the other night. I used to think she had some taste in dress, but I was ashamed of her at the concert. Something so formal and arrangé in her air! and she sits so upright! My best love, of course."

Ch. 21/24

Three more days!

QOTD: “Prettier musings of high-wrought love and eternal constancy, could never have passed along the streets of Bath, than Anne was sporting with from Camden-place to Westgate-buildings. It was almost enough to spread purification and perfume all the way.”

Ch. 20/24

QOTD: “A man does not recover from such a devotion of the heart to such a woman!—He ought not—he does not."

Ch. 19/24

QOTD: “She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! alas! she must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.”

Ch. 18/24

I love the Crofts so much.

QOTD: “No, it was not regret which made Anne's heart beat in spite of herself, and brought the colour into her cheeks when she thought of Captain Wentworth unshackled and free. She had some feelings which she was ashamed to investigate. They were too much like joy, senseless joy!”

Ch. 17/24

It’s Mrs. Smith!

QOTD: “She felt that she could so much more depend upon the sincerity of those who sometimes looked or said a careless or a hasty thing, than of those whose presence of mind never varied, whose tongue never slipped.”

Ch. 16/24

QOTD: “Such personal praise might have struck her, especially as it did not appear to Anne that the freckles were at all lessened.”

Ch. 15/24

Sir Walter’s mean girl chapter.

QOTD: “But still, there certainly were a dreadful multitude of ugly women in Bath; and as for the men! they were infinitely worse. Such scarecrows as the streets were full of!”