JANE AUSTEN

"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."

"A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment."

"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!"

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

"There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison"

"Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection."

"I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun."

"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."