I hesitated for all the right reasons. And I accepted for all the wrong ones.

Those are facts. Are they the truth? No, for they do not tell you of the heart, and that is where truth lives.

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I am sorry " I murmured. "I know. I ought not to have threatened to beat you " he returned. He pressed a kiss to my hair. "I just cannot bear to be kept out of your life " I said into the dark. He gave a sigh. "Julia you daft woman. When you will you understand You are my life.

Without an expectation of success, one is rarely successful.

Now I was more certain than ever of my decision. I could not love a man who did not love Jane Austen.