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“When pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure. -Anne Elliot, Jane Austen’s PERSUASION”

— Staci Hart

“It is now expedient to give some description of Mrs. Allen, that the reader may be able to judge in what manner her actions…

— Jane Austen

“I’m mad at Maggie for giving me something that nearly killed me to lose when I invariably fucked everything up. For showing me what…

— A. Meredith Walters

“Of course, while Katherine took the accolades in stride, she never took the work for granted. Not a morning dawned that she didn't wake…

— Margot Lee Shetterly

“It is now expedient to give some description of Mrs. Allen, that the reader may be able to judge in what manner her actions…

— Jane Austen

“My new favorite title is How Jane Austen Ruined My Life . I don't have the courage to read it, though. I'm afraid to…

— Katherine Reay

“It seemed just as clear to me that I would never pick up a pen again, fill a page with writing. The profession seemed…

— Annemarie Schwarzenbach

“Love must be learned, and learned again; there is no end to it. —KATHERINE ANNE PORTER”

— Luis Carlos Montalván

“The first of these occupations Kate Chester loved. Give her a book, and she could be happy still. It was one of the few…

— Rhoda Broughton

“I continued past the door of the Pink Room to look round her door. She was propped on her pillows with The Sentimental Bloke…

— Danielle Hawkins

“Adrienne Rich … did not die a woman who denied that her wounds came from the same source as her power. In fact, she…

— Cheryl Strayed

“Miss Austen’s novels … seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society, without genius,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson