❝ “I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.” Jane Austen
❝ “For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?” Jane Austen
❝ “Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and, however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want.” Jane Austen
❝ “It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy; it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.” Jane Austen
❝ “There is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book!” Jane Austen