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"You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope." THEE COLLAPSE

"...Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men."

"Perhaps I shall.—Yes, yes, if you please, no reference to examples in books. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. [...] I will not allow books to prove anything."
SNATCHED...and meanwhile Frederick Wentworth eavesdropping...

"He had thought her wretchedly altered...Her power with him was gone for ever." Killing self brb. Also the way Austen writes, at first I thought this was still Anne's internal monologue, which was devastating from another angle

Holy f**k was Austen's grammar always this hard to parse. Truly, listening to the audiobook meant I wasn't listening for SHIT. Rereading every sentence like five times to see what the commas are trying to logically tell me

hi i am so excited to read this. i guess ive become an austen stan by accident