Sometimes the last person on earth you want to be with is the one person you can't be without.
Jane AustenShe talked to her, listened to her, read to her; and the tranquillity of such evenings, her perfect security in such a tête-à-tête from any sound of unkindness, was unspeakably welcome to a mind which had seldom known a pause in its alarms or embarrassments.
Jane AustenTag: tranquility embarrassment shyness
It is now expedient to give some description of Mrs. Allen, that the reader may be able to judge in what manner her actions will hereafter tend to promote the general distress of the work, and how she will, probably, contribute to reduce poor Catherine to all the desperate wretchedness of which a last volume is capable -- whether by her imprudence, vulgarity, or jealousy -- whether by intercepting her letters, ruining her character, or turning her out of doors.
Jane AustenI must tell you what you will not ask, though I may wish it unsaid the next moment
Jane Austenshe cannot expect to excel if she does not practice a good deal.
Jane AustenUnjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.
Jane AustenI can no longer refuse myself the pleasure of profiting by your kind invitation when we last parted of spending some weeks with you at Churchhill, and, therefore, if quite convenient to you and Mrs. Vernon to receive me at present, I shall hope within a few days to be introduced to a sister whom I have so long desired to be acquainted with. My kind friends here are most affectionately urgent with me to prolong my stay, but their hospitable and cheerful dispositions lead them too much into society for my present situation and state of mind; and I impatiently look forward to the hour when I shall be admitted into Your delightful retirement.
Jane AustenHe is also handsome," replied Elizabeth, "which a young man ought likewise to be, if he possibly can. His character is thereby complete.
Jane AustenA single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else.
Jane AustenTag: single-women
A woman is not to marry a man merely because she is asked, or because he is attached to her, and can write a tolerable letter.
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