Saturday, 31 July 2010


"Everything indeed relative to this important journey was done, on ...of a heroine from her family ought to excite."
-Northanger Abbey Volume 1 Chapter 2

The truth is, that in London it is always a sickly season. Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be."
-Emma
Volume 1 Chapter 12

"If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad."

-Northanger Abbey, Volume 1 Chapter 1



"Every moment rather brought fresh agitation. It was an overpowering happiness."
-Persuasion
Volume 1 Chapter 11


"It is such a happiness when good people get together--and they always do."
-Emma
Volume 3 Chapter 7

"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the others." -Emma Volume 1 Chapter 7



"Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion."
-Pride and Prejudice
Volume 1 Chapter 17

Wednesday, 21 July 2010


"Remember where you are, and do not run on in the wild manner that you are suffered to do at home."
-Pride and Prejudice
Volume 1 Chapter 9

"Men never know when things are dirty or not."
-Emma


"Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love."
-Northanger Abbey Volume 1 Chapter 4