Heart Quote by Jane Austen

“Louisa beheld the grounds and house with the calm pleasure of one who has seen nothing, been nowhere, expects everything, and has little imagination.”

— Tanith Lee

“Louisa went about her duties at the hospital, trying not to dwell on the fact that this might be her last day alive.”

— David Healey

“What do I know, father,' said Louisa in her quiet manner, 'of tastes and fancies; of aspirations and affections; of all that part of…

— Charles Dickens

“I continued up the stairs, this time on wings, suspecting for the first time that Louisa's book might outlive us all. ”

— Patricia O'Brien

“information, listening to every word with rapt attention. Now that she had established herself in the duke’s household, the last thing”

— Brenda Novak

“[...] Louisa's attention, which had been wandering more and more during the progress of Magdalen's inquiries, wandered away altogether.”

— Wilkie Collins

“So Lily’s mouth would open and nothing would come out, then Louisa would start rattling on about meeting her grandmother or whether she had…

— Jojo Moyes

“a blur of white satin and lace, Louisa Marie Honeycutt dove into the waiting limousine, slid across”

— Rhonda Nelson

“She wanted to lose herself in the words, in other times and places”

— George R.R. Martin

“she was the kind of woman who only gave herself away in small doses, leaving men wandering like little children at all that she…

— Christopher Poindexter

“She entered the story knowing she would emerge from it feeling she had been immersed in the lives of others,”

— Michael Ondaatje

“It was her work of art, her poem and her prayer, to repeat this story, low and precipitately, as if she were in the…

— Henri Barbusse