All I ask is that my final months be happy ones, and that I be permitted a husband who will see to my proper Christian beheading and burial.

The day Henry made a choice... that some men are just too interesting to die.

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!

But if you read Jane Austen, you know that she had a wicked sense of humor. Not only was she funny, but her early writing was very dark and had a gothic tone to it.

The business of Mr. Bennett's life was to keep his daughters alive. The business of Mrs. Bennett's was to get them married.

Father may have been wanting in some things, but here he was masterful. Night upon night, I marveled at his power to hold listeners in rapt attention. He could tell a story with such detail, such flourish, that afterwards a man could swear it had been his own memory, and not a tale at all.