I fear that a life of death has made me numb to both.

Her only fault is that she lacks sense enough to avoid falling in love with such a fool as I!

I would much prefer their minds to be engaged in the deadly arts than clouded with dreams of marriage and fortune, as your own so clearly is!

Some people say "if we split up,we can cover more ground"-with blood

I know of nobody that is coming, I am sure, unless Charlotte Lucas should happen to call in- and I am sure my dinners are good enough for her, since she is an unmarried woman of seven-and-twenty, and as such should expect little more than a crust of bread washed down with a cup of loneliness.

So I grew up in a very book-friendly environment and my education as a writer was reading. I think that's the best education. Reading, and taking from the people I admired.

Pride and Prejudice' - perhaps more than any other Jane Austen book - is engrained in our literary consciousness.