No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be a heroine... But from fifteen to seventeen she was in training for a heroine.

Marianne was silent; it was impossible for her to say what she did not feel, however trivial the occasion.

I am not born to sit still and do nothing. If I lose the game, it shall not be from not striving for it.

…she felt depressed beyond any thing she had ever known before.

The evening ended with dancing. On its being proposed, Anne offered her services, as usual, and though her eyes would sometimes fill with tears as she sat at the instrument, she was extremely glad to be employed, and desired nothing in return but to be unobserved.

Look into your own heart because who looks outside, dreams, but who looks inside awakes.

One man's style must not be the rule of another's.