The Infinite Library

“The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!”

“And Marianne, who had the knack of finding her way in every house to the library, however it might be avoided by the family in general, soon procured herself a book.”

“I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be...yours.”

“To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect”

“If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.”

“It was told to me, it was in a manner forced on me by the very person herself whose prior engagement ruined all my prospects, and told me, as I thought, with triumph. This person's suspicions, therefore, I have had to oppose by endeavouring to appear indifferent where I have been most deeply interested; and it has not been only once; I have had her hopes and exultations to listen to again and again. I have known myself to be divided from Edward forever, without hearing one circumstance that could make me less desire the connection. Nothing has proved him unworthy; nor has anything declared him indifferent to me. I have had to content against the unkindness of his sister and the insolence of his mother, and have suffered the punishment of an attachment without enjoying its advantages. And all this has been going on at the time when, as you too well know, it has not been my only unhappiness. If you can think me capable of ever feeling, surely you may suppose that I have suffered now.”

“If a book is well written, I always find it too short.”

“It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.”

“I can feel no sentiment of approbation inferior to love.”

“It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.”

“…told herself likewise not to hope. But it was too late. Hope had already entered…”

“But to appear happy when I am so miserable — Oh! who can require it?”