"To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect"
- Jane Austen
"You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a ..."
"Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death."
"Elizabeth's spirit's soon rising to playfulness again, she wanted Mr. Darcy to account for his having ever fallen in love with her. 'How could you begin?' said she. begun."
"Is not general incivility the very essence of love?"
"Romance novels are birthday cake and life is often peanut butter and jelly. I think everyone should have lots of delicious romance novels lying around for those times when the peanut butter of life ge..."
- Janet Evanovich
"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."
"How quick come the reasons for approving what we like."
"Without music, life would be a blank to me."
"...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure."