Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.

Sometimes the last person on earth you want to be with is the one person you can't be without.

To begin perfect happiness at the respective ages of 26 and 18 is to do pretty well.

To her own heart it was a delightful affair, to her imagination it was even a ridiculous one, but to her reason, her judgment, it was completely a puzzle.

The longer they were together the more doubtful seemed the nature of his regard, and sometimes for a few painful minutes she believed it to be no more than friendship

You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever.

My Emma, does not every thing serve to prove more and more the beauty of truth and sincerity in all our dealings with each other?