favorite Jane quotes

I was wasting time on Pinterest finding things for my Jane Austen board and thought of collecting these...

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.” 

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.” {from Northanger Abbey}

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.” {from Pride & Prejudice... and absolutely true!}

“In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.” {Darcy's speech from P&P}

“but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.”

and the absolutely best ever...

“I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach. You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight years and a half ago. Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant. You alone have brought me to Bath. For you alone, I think and plan. Have you not seen this? Can you fail to have understood my wishes? I had not waited even these ten days, could I have read your feelings, as I think you must have penetrated mine. I can hardly write. I am every instant hearing something which overpowers me. You sink your voice, but I can distinguish the tones of that voice when they would be lost on others. Too good, too excellent creature! You do us justice, indeed. You do believe that there is true attachment and constancy among men. Believe it to be most fervent, most undeviating, in F. W.

I must go, uncertain of my fate; but I shall return hither, or follow your party, as soon as possible. A word, a look, will be enough to decide whether I enter your father's house this evening or never.” {Wentworth's letter from my all-time fave, Persuasion}

a {good things} post

- getting my car back all shiny and "new"

- the sun shining on the snow

- never-ending Christmas music

- my job and my coworkers

- baking holiday goodies

- family gatherings

- thoughtful texts

- memories

- the end of the semester approaching

- a good night's sleep

- Hallmark holiday movies

- hope

- kind words