Anne elliot Quote by Jane Austen

“Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough, for he had nothing to do, and she had hardly anybody to…

— Jane Austen

How she might have felt had there been no Captain Wentworth in the case, was not worth enquiry; for there was a Captain Wentworth:…

— Jane Austen

“Mr. Elliot was rational, discreet, polished, – but he was not open. There was never any burst of feeling, any warmth of indignation or…

— Jane Austen

And yet he had loved her. A Bookish girl heedless of her beauty, unconscious of her effect. She'd been prepared to live her life…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

“Odd how one man could evoke so many emotions within her. Lust? Oh yeah, much of the time. The urge to smack him upside…

— Jill Shalvis

“Slow and unarguable, the old desire for love, for a close-shared life, struck at him, not with Kathy, not with Anne, not with any…

— Laura Z. Hobson

“There was nothing “bright and sparkling” about this one. It was subdued, almost melancholy. Heroine Anne Elliot, perhaps my favorite of the Austen women…

— Katherine Reay

“She had not merely been attracted to him, she had been arrested by him and in her mind he had become the perfect partner…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“To love someone was not what she had expected. It was like falling from somewhere high up and breaking in half, and only one…

— Jodi Lynn Anderson

“He really liked this woman. Or, rather, he was really attracted to her, and nothing she had said so far had weakened the attraction.”

— Nick Hornby

“She herself, she said, had visited the very depths of disillusionment in the male character by being honest in precisely this way: men who…

— Rachel Cusk

After Henry's treatment of her she wasn't sure that men could honestly love women but she wanted to believe it. She wanted to be…

— Anna Godbersen