All the privilege I claim for my own sex ... is that of loving longest, when existence or hope is gone.

You must be the best judge of your own happiness.

To be sure you know no actual good of me, but nobody thinks of that when they fall in love.

...I will not allow books to prove any thing." "But how shall we prove any thing?" "We never shall.

An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous in such a high-wrought felicity; and she went to her room, and grew steadfast and fearless in the thankfulness of her enjoyment.

You, of all people, deserve a happy ending Despite everything that happened to you, you aren't bitter You aren't cold You've just retreated a little and been shy, and that's okay If I were a fairy godmother, I would give you your heart's desire in an instant And I would wipe away your tears and tell you not to cry "A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of"

Provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all.