Quote by Jane Austen Download Open image ““The hair was curled, and the maid sent away, and Emma sat down to think and be miserable.”” — Jane Austen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“...Emma still had a joyless look, and, habitually, at the corners of her mouth, she had that tightness that crumples the faces of old… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“Emma’s head appeared in the doorway, jerking him out of his thoughts. He rewarded her with a frown. It wasn’t like him to be” — J.C. Reed Copy Share Image
“My fists clenched, I fought the pain and anger coursing through me. I turned towards Emma's door and set my hands on either side… — Rebecca Donovan Copy Share Image
“Emma felt frightened, apprehensive, yes, but also elated and excited, her feelings all tumbled and mixed together like a stew of varied ingredients tossed… — Helen Hollick Copy Share Image
“I looked over Emma’s shoulder. I recognized the girls in the photos. I understood we used to be close. But they were like books… — Sarah Shepard Copy Share Image
“Emma thought she might throw up. She had punched an earl in the face...” — Mandy Goff Copy Share Image
“He imagined that he stood near Emma in a wide land and, humbly and in tears, bent and kissed the elbow of her sleeve.” — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“I stood before the canvas, admiring what Emma had unleashed. She'd gone back to the one place that would always be waiting for her.” — Rebecca Donovan Copy Share Image
“...but now the love of Charles for Emma seemed to her a desertion from her tenderness, an encroachment upon what was hers, and she… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“I’ve got you Emma. You’re safe.” Tears illuminated her eyes and clung to her dark lashes. She wrapped her arms around his neck and… — Nancee Cain Copy Share Image
“Then Emma Mayhew dies, and everything that she thought or felt vanishes and is gone forever” — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“How earnestly did she then wish that her former opinions had been more reasonable, more moderate!” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“it is very well worth-while to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Everybody is taken in at some period or another. [...] In marriage especially. [...] There is not one in a hundred of either sex,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
She knew that what Marianne and her mother conjectured one moment, they believed the next: that with them, to wish was to hope, and… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“…for I look upon the Frasers to be about as unhappy as most other married people.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“It raises my spleen more than any thing, to have the pretence of being asked, of being given a choice, and at the same… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I must tell you what you will not ask, though I may wish it unsaid the next moment” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
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