I need voices of reason and of hysteria and of empathy. I need to have an Alanis moment. I need advice from… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
“Phones have caused all my uni dramas to date. You wouldn't catch Elizabeth Bennet sending a comedy guinea pig picture to Darcy.… — Tom Ellen Copy Share Image
“I guess I was inching and crawling my way toward Elizabeth Bennett's words about unconditional love. That it was a dangerous thing… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love!- Elizabeth Bennet — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“We needed to get back to the times of Elizabeth Bennett and Mr. Darcy or Tristan and Isolde. Where you felt that… — Emily McKee Copy Share Image
“There are a million ways a man can become a Mr. Darcy.” “True.” “But it takes an Elizabeth Bennet to see them.” — Christina Boyd Copy Share Image
People love Jane Austen, even though those books are absurd to us, because we like the clarity of it: we can see… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Elizabeth Bennet, will you do me the great honor of not going to prom with me? ... Will you instead avoid prom… — elizabeth eulberg Copy Share Image
I've worked with people and I've known people that were really competitive but I've always said that I take an Elizabeth Bennett… — Anne Hathaway Copy Share Image
“Like so many of the other books I read, it never seemed to me like a book, but like a place I… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“...she herself loved the character of Elizabeth Bennet. "I must confess that I think her as delightful a creature as ever appeared… — Carol Shields Copy Share Image
I think a fictional invention grows according to its own development, not the author's. Characters in fiction are not simply as alive… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Had Elizabeth Bennet known how wildly Darcy's heart beat for her, 'Pride and Prejudice' would barely have made it into a short… — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share Image
“There’s always that one guy who gets a hold on you. Not like your best friend’s brother who gets you in a… — Jess Rothenberg Copy Share Image
As the tide of feminism that crested two decades ago recedes and the old advance-and-retreat games of courtship return, "Pride & Prejudice"… — Stephen Holden Copy Share Image
“I stand outside Mr. Haverstrom’s door, staring at the black letters of his name stenciled on the frosted glass, listening to the… — Emma Chase Copy Share Image
“You must give me leave to flatter myself, my dear cousin, that your refusal of my addresses is merely words of course.… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Can I ask you a question?” he asks as we complete our first loop on the train. “Okay,” I say, warily, not… — Emily Harper Copy Share Image
What on earth did you say to Isola? She stopped in on her way to pick up Pride and Prejudice and to… — Mary Ann Shaffer Copy Share Image
This is it--what all the hoopla is about, what Wuthering Heights is about--it all boils down to this feeling rushing through me… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
“—¿Prefieres leer a jugar? —La señorita Elizabeth Bennet es una gran lectora y no encuentra placer en nada más.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Elizabeth Bennet, will you do me the great honor of not going to prom with me?” — Elizabeth Eulberg Copy Share Image
Have you any other objection than your belief of my indifference?" - Elizabeth Bennet — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The love of Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy is reliant on the restrictions of Regency culture, their passion is created by repression. — Sara Pascoe Copy Share Image
“Even if you were to forbid Miss Elizabeth Bennet to pursue such endeavours, Mrs Sherlock Darcy shall always be thrown into the… — Debbie Cowens Copy Share Image
Yes, you know enough of my frankness to believe me capable of that. After abusing you so abominably to your face, I… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty women… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“As for Elizabeth Bennet, our chief reason for accepting her point of view as a reflection of her author's is the impression… — Mary Lascelles Copy Share Image
For [Jane Austen and the readers of Pride and Prejudice], as for Mr. Darcy, [Elizabeth Bennett's] solitary walks express the independence that… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“You—Miss Elizabeth, you are not properly attired to be addressing a gentleman in the dark of the night!” She cocked an eyebrow,… — Nicole Clarkston Copy Share Image
“What is your favorite book?” One of Jane’s dark eyebrows lifted. “Rather like choosing a favorite shade of blue, my lady. Each… — Elisa Braden Copy Share Image
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