Yasi Moghaddam’s Reviews > Mansfield Park > Status Update

'But you like Julia best.'
'Oh! yeah, I like Julia best.'
'But do you really?'

No babe, he doesn’t 🙂‍↔️🙂‍↕️

"If this man had not twelve thousand a year, he would be a very stupid fellow."

A sentence worth more than twelve thousand a year 😮‍💨

"; and the tranquility of such evenings, her perfect security in such a tête-à-tête from any sound of unkindness, was unspeakably welcome to a mind which had seldom known a pause in its alarms or embarrassments."

Peace isn’t excitement, but the absence of fear. 🕊️

‘I can’t never be important to any one.’
‘What is to prevent you?’
‘Every thing—my situation, my foolishness and awkwardness.’
‘There is no reason in the world why you should not be important where you are known.’ ❤️‍🩹

"He recommended the books which charmed her leisure hours, he made reading useful by talking to her of what she read, and heightened its attraction by judicious praise."

More proof that 'book compatibility' has been a love language since 1814 ❤️‍🔥

";and though Fanny was often mortified by their treatment of her, she thought too lowly of her own claims to feel injured by it."

The saddest part is how little she believed she deserved better! 🥀

"And sleep seeming to be her likeliest friend, she was taken to finish her sorrows in bed." 💔

"We must prepare ourselves for gross ignorance, some meanness of opinions, and very distressing vulgarity of manner."

How I introduced my ex to other people 🥲

"...but her love of money was equal to her love of directing, and she knew quite as well how to save her own as to spend that of her friends."

Just Austen's wonderfully roundabout way of calling someone illiberal. 🫢

"The very idea of her having suffered to grow up at a distance from us all in poverty and neglect, would be enough to make either of the dear sweet-tempered boys in love with her."

Ah, yes... nothing fuels romance quite like female suffering!