The more precious His gift, the more anxious God for its return.

Abraham," he said. "I'm pleased to see you alive, old friend." "And I to see you dead.

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.

We may all deserve hell, but some of us deserve it sooner than others.

Of all the weapons in the world, love is the most dangerous.

My sisters and I cannot spend any substantial time searching for Wickham, as we are each commanded by His Majesty to defend Hertfordshire from all enemies until such time as we are dead, rendered lame, or married.