Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.

To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.

Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.

I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be...yours.

Between Barton and Delaford, there was that constant communication which strong family affection would naturally dictate;—and among the merits and the happiness of Elinor and Marianne, let it not be ranked as the least considerable, that though sisters, and living almost within sight of each other, they could live without disagreement between themselves, or producing coolness between their husbands.

I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the germs of love there detected; and now, at the first renewed view of him, they spontaneously revived, great and strong! He made me love him without looking at me.