Yes; he had done it. She was in the carriage, and felt that he had placed her there, that his will and his hands had done it, that she owed it to his perception of her fatigue, and his resolution to give her rest. She was very much affected by the view of his disposition towards her, which all these things made apparent. This little circumstance seemed the completion of all that had gone before. She understood him. He could not forgive her, but he could not be unfeeling. Though condemning her for the past, and considering it with high and unjust resentment, though perfectly careless of her, and though becoming attached to another, still he could not see her suffer, without the desire of giving her relief. It was a remainder of former sentiment; it was an impulse of pure, though unacknowledged friendship; it was a proof of his own warm and amiable heart, which she could not contemplate without emotions so compounded of pleasure and pain, that she knew not which prevailed.
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GEORGETTE HEYER Sharp knives seemed to cut her delicate feet, yet she hardly felt them, so deep was the pain in her ... HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN Her hand accidentally brushed up against his chest. She froze. His breathing remained steady and reg... CATE CAMPBELL BEATTY Occupied in observing Mr. Bingley’s attentions to her sister, Elizabeth was far from suspecting th... JANE AUSTEN She saw how he was staring at it, the bright red hue beneath her bonnet. She could not bear to see t... CHARLOTTE FEATHERSTONE He firmly pulled her body against his and he brushed her lips with his. Staring into her eyes, he li... LANEY SMITH It broke his heart because she started to consider that her home. But on the other hand he knew she ... ELEANOR POPPELL What are you?' She asked. He shot her a brief glance and looked away. He stared at the scenery of th... SHIRLEY A. MARTIN His body was urgent against her, and she didn't have the heart anymore to fight...She saw his eyes, ... D.H. LAWRENCE He, too, stood looking at her for a moment--and it seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting ... AYN RAND The contents of this letter threw Elizabeth into a flutter of spirits in which it was difficult to d... JANE AUSTEN Yes. He saw her in his mind, exactly as she was. She bore him company with her pride, resentment, ha... CHARLES DICKENS When she opened her eyes, she was both in her body and watching it, nowhere near the cavity of the t... MAGGIE STIEFVATER She rested her head against his and felt, for the first time, what she would often feel with him: a ... LILY KING Whatever shred of hope he'd had for a future with her was gone. She still felt something for him, sh... SARAH J. MAAS Royce understood then why she had come: she had come to finish the task her relatives had begun; to ... JUDITH MCNAUGHT She had never been in love before. She'd tried to save herself the pain, but all her pretending and ... MELANIE DICKERSON Slowly his resistance ebbed. She felt the change in his body, the relaxing of tension, his shoulders... LISA KLEYPAS But now she could not bear the way she sounded. She was not a person anyone could love. .... PETER CAREY It took her three seconds-one, two, three-to know that her destiny required her to join this man, an... JAMES A. MICHENER Then she sat as if paralyzed, thinking. She had never in her life felt such a longing. She wanted Mi... STIEG LARSSON Her room was warm and lightsome. A huge doll sat with her legs apart in the copious easy-chair besid... JAMES JOYCE She was a creature of the deep, and there she must return, or perish. Toby understood that, but it h... JULIET MARILLIER She wanted to write to him. Tell him she was glad he was back, that he was alive, that he was home a... COCO J. GINGER She wondered whether there would ever come an hour in her life when she didn't think of him -- didn'... PHILIP PULLMAN How can I tell a story we already know too well? Her name was Africa. His was France. He colonized h... REBECCA SOLNIT His hand moved to cup her cheek, his palm warm against her cold skin, and she found that her own fea... CASSANDRA CLARE It was as if she was a dream, like London, which he could not entirely grasp and of which he was not... SARA SHERIDAN He should in humility have asked her why it was that he was naturally a cuckold, why two women of di... WILLIAM TREVOR His agony somehow became an invisible hand, stretching out through the Force, a hand that found her,... MATTHEW WOODRING STOVER You had every right to be. He raised his eyes to look at her and she was suddenly and strangely remi... CASSANDRA CLARE Inside the music like this, she understood many things. She understood that Simon was a disappointed... ELIZABETH STROUT She could feel the blood flowing within her and she felt that she must die or break forth into leave... MERVYN PEAKE He knew in the way that she was a part of him, the way her breathing was his breathing, and her drea... CASSANDRA CLARE While this is all very amusing, the kiss that will free the girl is the kiss that she most desires,�... CASSANDRA CLARE she, with her affection and her gaiety, had been largely responsible for him having rediscovered the... PAULO COELHO She has never been a pretty crier. She sobbed the way she did everything else - with passion and exc... JODI PICOULT She began now to comprehend that he was exactly the man who, in disposition and talents, would most ... JANE AUSTEN He couldn’t look back at the children. He couldn’t think of it. All he could do was watch the ey... RACHEL A. MARKS Her own awareness had risen like the dawn on her back.Like a leaden sunrise veiled in a swirl of sto... RENEE AHDIEH He did not speak; merely looked at her with an expression she had seen traces of before but never fu... ANNE FORTIER But even though she was attractive, there was something else about her that caught his eye. She was ... NICHOLAS SPARKS A nod at Beatrice who held absolutely still. "She said she would come with me. She insisted on it. S... METTE IVIE HARRISON How was it that he haunted her imagination so persistently? What could it be? Why did she care for w... ELIZABETH GASKELL Her hands warming on tea looked like chunks of knitting a child had felted in grubby palms. Enough d... LAUREN GROFF My mother started out by being a very good girl. She did everything that was expected of her, and it... RUTH REICHL ...his soul (was) ringing like a well-struck bell. But it was a bell that rang with more than joy an... PAUL HOFFMAN She didn’t know how long they stood on that roof, tangled up in each other, mouths and hands rovin... SARAH J. MAAS Now now,” he said, setting his hand on her shoulder. He didn’t even see her turn. One moment she... MATT TOMERLIN The woman had gasped beneath his heavy body. He rubbed against her, lubricated by the warm, sticky l... NATSUO KIRINO But in the night he woke and held her tight as though she were all of life and it was being taken fr... ERNEST HEMINGWAY The insistent drums were an unwelcome reminder of the existence of another world, wholly autonomous,... PAUL BOWLES It was the nicest thing she could imagine. It made her want to have his babies and give him both of ... RAINBOW ROWELL An emotion clamped down on her heart. It squeezed her into a terrible silence. But he said nothing a... MARIE RUTKOSKI Her gaze dropped to the right side of his mouth, to the corner of his lip that was permanently pulle... ELIZABETH HOYT But above all, above respect and esteem, there was a motive within her of good will which could not ... JANE AUSTEN The woman was silent, her eyes on the floor. Shimamura had come to a point where he knew he was only... YASUNARI KAWABATA Kiss me again,” he challenged, only half joking. It was so weird to hear him say that, to hea... KIMBERLY DERTING Anna had been preparing herself for this meeting, had thought what she would say to him, but she did... LEO TOLSTOY My daughter had carried within her a story that kept hurting her: Her dad abandoned her. She started... REGINA BRETT Terrible thought she was brave. She remembered it now, heard his voice in her head as if he stood ne... STACIA KANE The message, which one fall or another of the coin would eventually give him, was how to get himself... PATRICIA A. MCKILLIP Brigan was saying her name, and he was sending her a feeling. It was courage and strength, and somet... KRISTIN CASHORE There was an infinitesimal pause while he watched her face, as though he half expected her to recogn... LEE WILKINSON You're not moving your body the correct way, Here, just let me show you." Though it was the old... SARAH J. MAAS His breath was warm on her neck as he bent his head, resting his cheek against her hair. Her heart b... SARAH J. MAAS Intuitively, she sensed Leonardo’s gaze on her, and she caught sight of him near the entrance to t... DELANEY DIAMOND Though her emotions had not deviated from a jittery frailty she knew that in her own room she could ... ANNA GODBERSEN She saw in his eyes that he knew she was thinking about him. She liked the fact that he knew it, and... NICHOLAS SPARKS All of a sudden, she felt frozen. More chilled than before, as though she had been thrust into an ic... MEGAN FRAMPTON Prove it!" she hissed. "Prove you are who you are!" "We don't have time for this! You really wa... MELISSA DE LA CRUZ He was supposed to be the first man to tell her that she was beautiful and help her determine who sh... ANAIS TORRES Even the dry and dusty arid desert air could not get her sweet perfume out of his nostrils. That one... VIRGINIA ALISON Her eyes stung from crying for so long and having some tears dry on them. Her body was weak from the... 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She was a great lover and a great mother. She had so much of tendernes... BETTY SMITH I believe in you, my darling. I believe in you." He closed his eyes. And when he opened th... ELIZABETH HOYT Her heart had grown so familiar to the pain of life without him, that to respond now seemed too larg... COCO J. GINGER Tess's feminine hope - shall we confess it - had been so obstinately recuperative as to revive in he... THOMAS HARDY It was at first almost as if he hadn't wanted to kiss her. His mouth was hard on hers, unyielding; t... CASSANDRA CLARE Jay showed up after school with a bouquet of flowers and an armful of DVDs, although Violet couldn�... KIMBERLY DERTING He is struck by her overview of his situation. It is as if she has understood his life. He is taken ... HILARY MANTEL You're rather good at this, aren't you?" And she didn't just mean his reading of Gerrard. Vane'... STEPHANIE LAURENS He loved her. Jay Heaton, her best friend since childhood was in love with her. He didn't say i... KIMBERLY DERTING She had some money left over from her allowance that I made her give her father for gas, driving his... MARIA PARTON No one could see her objectively anyway. Even those who saw her for the first time, before she had o... ANN PATCHETT
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Every savage can dance. JANE AUSTEN To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love. JANE AUSTEN A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer. JANE AUSTEN If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next. JANE AUSTEN One man's style must not be the rule of another's. JANE AUSTEN My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conv... JANE AUSTEN The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupi... JANE AUSTEN Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. It is not fair. He has fame and ... JANE AUSTEN Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be... JANE AUSTEN Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure. JANE AUSTEN Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief. 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JANE AUSTEN To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect JANE AUSTEN There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My cour... JANE AUSTEN I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. N... JANE AUSTEN Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection. JANE AUSTEN I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is to... JANE AUSTEN There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, whic... JANE AUSTEN We are all fools in love JANE AUSTEN ....how good Mrs. West could have written such books and collected so many hard works, with all her ... JANE AUSTEN What should I do with your strong, manly, spirited sketches, full of variety and glow? How could I p... JANE AUSTEN Here I am once more in this scene of dissipation and vice, and I begin already to find my morals cor... JANE AUSTEN Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. — It is not fair. — He has f... JANE AUSTEN I cannot help thinking that it is more natural to have flowers grow out of the head than fruit. JANE AUSTEN If I am a wild Beast I cannot help it. It is not my own fault. JANE AUSTEN I will not say that your mulberry trees are dead; but I am afraid they're not alive. JANE AUSTEN I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any other motive than to save my lif... JANE AUSTEN To you I shall say, as I have often said before, Do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at la... JANE AUSTEN Is not general incivility the very essence of love? JANE AUSTEN The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really... JANE AUSTEN In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to te... JANE AUSTEN There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving peop... JANE AUSTEN To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plai... JANE AUSTEN Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last ... JANE AUSTEN ...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure. JANE AUSTEN You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure. JANE AUSTEN It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. JANE AUSTEN Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. JANE AUSTEN A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. JANE AUSTEN Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does. JANE AUSTEN From politics it was an easy step to silence. JANE AUSTEN There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person. JANE AUSTEN I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle. JANE AUSTEN Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced and the inconvenience is often considerab... JANE AUSTEN One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty. JANE AUSTEN It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good co... JANE AUSTEN It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, s... JANE AUSTEN I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than o... JANE AUSTEN One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. JANE AUSTEN One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, noth... JANE AUSTEN Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied. JANE AUSTEN Those who do not complain are never pitied. JANE AUSTEN Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. JANE AUSTEN In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels. JANE AUSTEN I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety. JANE AUSTEN Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor o... JANE AUSTEN What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance. JANE AUSTEN With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works. JANE AUSTEN There are certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are of pretty woman t... JANE AUSTEN It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be... JANE AUSTEN And I, Mr. Knightley, am equally stout in my confidence of its not doing them any harm. With all dea... JANE AUSTEN Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion,... JANE AUSTEN Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish prepara... JANE AUSTEN Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct. JANE AUSTEN Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies. JANE AUSTEN For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn? JANE AUSTEN To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment. JANE AUSTEN It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing... JANE AUSTEN A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as sh... JANE AUSTEN . . . it is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether... JANE AUSTEN Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young perso... JANE AUSTEN You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have hear... JANE AUSTEN We do not look in our great cities for our best morality. JANE AUSTEN One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound. JANE AUSTEN Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be... JANE AUSTEN It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;-- it is disposition alone. Seven years ... JANE AUSTEN Although our productions have afforded more extensive and unaffected pleasure than those of any othe... JANE AUSTEN I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by ... JANE AUSTEN My sore throats are always worse than anyone's. JANE AUSTEN If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. JANE AUSTEN I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed femal... JANE AUSTEN It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides. JANE AUSTEN It is only poverty that makes celibacy contemptible. A single woman of good fortune is always respec... JANE AUSTEN It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be i... JANE AUSTEN Well! Evil to some is always good to others. JANE AUSTEN Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considera... JANE AUSTEN There is hardly any personal defect which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to JANE AUSTEN In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels. JANE AUSTEN For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn? JANE AUSTEN There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well.The more I see of the ... JANE AUSTEN I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstan... JANE AUSTEN I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It... JANE AUSTEN What are men to rocks and mountains? JANE AUSTEN Watch your thoughts, for they become words.Watch your words, for they become actions.Watch your acti... JANE AUSTEN One may be continually abusive without saying any thing just; but one cannot be always laughing at... JANE AUSTEN It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before JANE AUSTEN Family connexions were always worth preserving, good company always worth seeking. JANE AUSTEN In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the se... JANE AUSTEN There is hardly any personal defect which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to. JANE AUSTEN We certainly do not forget you as soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our me... JANE AUSTEN I hate to hear you talking so like a fine gentleman, and as if women were all fine ladies, instead o... JANE AUSTEN When any two young people take it into their heads to marry, they are pretty sure by perseverance to... JANE AUSTEN The only time I ever really suffered in body or mind, the only time that I ever fancied myself unwel... JANE AUSTEN Knowing their feelings as she did, it was a most attractive picture of happiness to her. She always ... JANE AUSTEN I would rather have young people settle on a small income at once, and have to struggle with a few d... JANE AUSTEN It has sunk him, I cannot say how much it has sunk him in my opinion. So unlike what a man should be... JANE AUSTEN It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be i... JANE AUSTEN An agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones. JANE AUSTEN She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they sho... JANE AUSTEN One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fa... JANE AUSTEN I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle. As a child I was taug... JANE AUSTEN The distance is nothing when one has a motive. JANE AUSTEN Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her. JANE AUSTEN A girl likes to be crossed a little in love now and then. It is something to think of JANE AUSTEN My good opinion once lost is lost forever. JANE AUSTEN Till this moment I never knew myself. JANE AUSTEN He is a gentleman, and I am a gentleman's daughter. So far we are equal. JANE AUSTEN An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your... JANE AUSTEN From the very beginning— from the first moment, I may almost say— of my acquaintance with you, y... JANE AUSTEN To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love JANE AUSTEN You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell m... JANE AUSTEN I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with ... JANE AUSTEN I have not the pleasure of understanding you. JANE AUSTEN I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve. JANE AUSTEN There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the... JANE AUSTEN Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste it's fragrance on the desert air. JANE AUSTEN Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one... JANE AUSTEN It was the misfortune of poetry to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and ... JANE AUSTEN An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her care... JANE AUSTEN I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal. JANE AUSTEN There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give ... JANE AUSTEN To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for t... JANE AUSTEN It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be i... JANE AUSTEN There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart. JANE AUSTEN Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that s... JANE AUSTEN Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the m... JANE AUSTEN A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in ... JANE AUSTEN The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really... JANE AUSTEN What is right to be done cannot be done too soon. JANE AUSTEN There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves. JANE AUSTEN There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort. JANE AUSTEN Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure. JANE AUSTEN A single woman with a very narrow income must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid - the proper sp... JANE AUSTEN The power of doing anything with quickness is always prized much by the possessor, and often without... JANE AUSTEN It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little t... JANE AUSTEN She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she wa... JANE AUSTEN Her tears fell abundantly--but her grief was so truly artless, that no dignity could have made it mo... JANE AUSTEN There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got al... JANE AUSTEN Beware how you give your heart. JANE AUSTEN My idea of good company, Mr. Eliot, is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great ... JANE AUSTEN Miss Bingley's congratulations to her brother, on his approaching marriage, were all that was affect... JANE AUSTEN You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any oth... JANE AUSTEN Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occas... JANE AUSTEN Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say... JANE AUSTEN The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen o... JANE AUSTEN We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be. JANE AUSTEN It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these... JANE AUSTEN How quick come the reasons for approving what we like! JANE AUSTEN Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love. JANE AUSTEN General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be. JANE AUSTEN You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you. JANE AUSTEN Woe betide him, and her too, when it comes to things of consequence, when they are placed in circums... JANE AUSTEN Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition. JANE AUSTEN It's been many years since I had such an exemplary vegetable. JANE AUSTEN I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself. JANE AUSTEN My dear, dear aunt,' she rapturously cried, what delight! what felicity! You give me fresh life and ... JANE AUSTEN One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it JANE AUSTEN But above all, above respect and esteem, there was a motive within her of good will which could not ... JANE AUSTEN Aunque me dieras cuarenta hombres como él, nunca sería tan feliz como tú. Mientras no posea tu bu... JANE AUSTEN It was gratitude; gratitude, not merely for having once loved her, but for loving her still well eno... JANE AUSTEN You may ask questions which I shall not choose to answer. JANE AUSTEN It's a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in... JANE AUSTEN My object then," replied Darcy, "was to show you, by every civility in my power, that I was not so m... JANE AUSTEN Vanity, not love, has been my folly. JANE AUSTEN They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again. JANE AUSTEN She began now to comprehend that he was exactly the man who, in disposition and talents, would most ... JANE AUSTEN She was convinced that she could have been happy with him, when it was no longer likely they should ... JANE AUSTEN Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I ... JANE AUSTEN I am excessively diverted. JANE AUSTEN Nothing is more deceitful," said Darcy, "than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessn... JANE AUSTEN Every thing nourishes what is strong already. JANE AUSTEN