Choice Quote by L.J. Amodeo

“To Elizabeth it appeared that, had her family made an agreement to expose themselves as much as they could during the evening, it would…

— Jane Austen

“Never would I take what I’d been given for granted. I’d never look at her through indifferent eyes, listen to her fears and worries…

— A.L. Jackson

“Elizabeth was happy in her marriage, she really was. It was just that sometimes she thought about all the experiences she’d never gotten to…

— Emma Straub

“Finally, Elizabeth understood that she had been orphaned not once but twice when her mother passed away. She lost her father as surely as…

— Miranda Davis

“Had Elizabeth's opinion been all drawn from her own family, she could not have formed a very pleasing picture of conjugal felicity or domestic…

— Jane Austen

“I had the choice—I could once again pretend and recite the words that would turn me into a powerful king. I could recite the…

— Ian Tuason

“...the bird began to carry them to a new life in a new land. We'll be happy ever after, the queen wanted to whisper…

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

“...What was wrong between Diana and me was that she was too much a mother to me, and as I had had one mother,…

— Robertson Davies

“In living so closely with these queens, inevitably my ideas and prejudices have changed. I became more aware of the profound loneliness of their…

— Jane Dunn

“Dear Elizabeth, you cannot know how much joy you bring to my heart...”

— Terry Spear

“An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents.”

— Jane Austen

“I reread my grandmother's letter and realized with a deep sense of contentment that I had not had to change at all in order…

— Julianne Donaldson