Quote by Jane Austen

“She had some kind of foolish and unreasonable notion that the more doggedly she stood, the more would she placate certain mysterious powers which…

— Cora Sandel

“As an instinct told her which way to turn, her wisdom told her that it will be a long path to manifest.”

— Sarah Pussell

“And while a part of her wanted that more than anything; to let go, embrace the despair and let it flood through her veins…

— Kyle M. Scott

“There were times when it felt like words were mere threads, completely inadequate to contain the enormity of her thoughts. The landscape in her…

— Courtney Milan

“Her tone held a challenge. She did not need his condemnation or what his pity. Once, she had wanted his love, but that time…

— India Drummond

“large part of her simplicity consisted in determining not to want what she could not have with ease. So”

— James Baldwin

“...and no new difficulty arising, no sudden recollection, no unexpected summons, no impertinent intrusion to disconcert their measures, my heroine was most unnaturally able…

— Jane Austen

“At what whirling moment had she halted and turned, unbeknownst to herself, the other way?”

— Colum McCann

“She found herself suddenly surrounded by a host of assumptions. It was assumed that she trembled for joy in his presence, languished in his…

— Vita Sackville-West

“Without any display of doing more than the rest, or any fear of doing too much, he was always true to her interests and…

— Jane Austen

“To see her, amid all of it. To see that contentment and beauty were not unattainable things.”

— Khaled Hosseini

“She did not realize it herself, but she had so long been accustomed to wanting what she did not have, that to state offhand…

— Eleanor H. Porter