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

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

it is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa.

I have never yet found that the advice of a Sister could prevent a young Man's being in love if he chose it.

And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.

One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

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. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight and a half years ago. Dare not say that a man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.