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In suiting the action to the words, however, I perceived that the stars were all wrong. That was my undoing. I had looked up unthinkingly, anticipating the familiar, and, finding it gone, began to cry like a baby. Whereupon Peter stopped the gig and took me in his arms, kissing me so that my face was soon sore both from kissing and crying.


Jennifer Paynter


#jane-austen #jennifer-paynter #love #marriage #mary-bennet

As he talked, I watched Emma and wondered what is to become of her. She is of an age to be married but she spends her time with people who are so much older than she, that she is never likely to meet a husband. And if she does, I do not know if she will wish to marry. She is too comfortable where she is. Her father is easy to please and she can do as she likes with the household. A husband will have his own views, and Emma is not likely to take to that way of living.


Amanda Grange


#age

It is always easy to question the judgement of others in matters of which we may be imperfectly informed.


P.D. James


#elizabeth-bennet #jane-austen #death

[Jane] Austen was not a novelist for nothing: she knew that our stories are what make us human, and that listening to someone else's stories -- entering into their feelings, validating their experiences -- is the highest way of acknowledging their humanity, the sweetest form of usefulness.


William Deresiewicz


#stories #experience

Mama, the more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.


Jane Austen


#jane-austen #love #marianne-dashwood #sense-and-sensibility #world

But neither could compare with the gargantuan natural edifice that was the mountain upon which Nachtstürm Castle rose. It was a mountain made of the darkness between two lightning bolts. It was made less of earth than Stygian frost. Whole towns fell away as they ascended, as though the ranks of black and frowning conifers waged war against the humans below. Even the path – rather narrow and rarely straight – seemed less made by centuries of pilgrim feet and more by the trace of some careless demon’s claw. It was, in fact, perfect.


Emily C.A. Snyder


#jane-austen #nachtsturm-castle #northanger-abbey #nature

If Mr. [V.S.] Naipaul takes no pleasure in the happy delineation of the varieties of human nature, then he must be intolerably stupid.


Roseanne Cash


#naipaul #nature

My idea of good company...is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.' 'You are mistaken,' said he gently, 'that is not good company, that is the best.


Jane Austen


#good-company #jane-austen #persuasion #idea

You either choose this method of passing the evening because you are in each other's confidence, and have secret affairs to discuss, or because you are conscious that your figures appear to the greatest advantage in walking;— if the first, I should be completely in your way, and if the second, I can admire you much better as I sit by the fire.


Jane Austen


#confidence

I will only add, God bless you.


Jane Austen


#blessings #darcy #jane-austen #mr-darcy #prejudice