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  • #31
    Jane Austen
    “From the very beginning— from the first moment, I may almost say— of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others, were such as to form the groundwork of disapprobation on which succeeding events have built so immovable a dislike; and I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #32
    Jane Austen
    “You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.

    -Mr. Darcy”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #33
    Jane Austen
    “Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #34
    Jane Austen
    “Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #35
    Jane Austen
    “Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #36
    Jane Austen
    “Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #37
    Jane Austen
    “Now be sincere; did you admire me for my impertinence?"

    "For the liveliness of your mind, I did.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #38
    Jane Austen
    “One word from you shall silence me forever.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #39
    Jane Austen
    “We do not suffer by accident.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #40
    Jane Austen
    “A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #41
    Jane Austen
    “Do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at last”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #42
    Jane Austen
    “Elizabeth's spirit's soon rising to playfulness again, she wanted Mr. Darcy to account for his having ever fallen in love with her. 'How could you begin?' said she.
    'I can comprehend your going on charmingly, when you had once made a beginning; but what could set you off in the first place?' '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.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #43
    Jane Austen
    “Mr. Darcy began to feel the danger of paying Elizabeth too much attention.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #44
    Jane Austen
    “I love you. Most ardently.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #45
    Jane Austen
    “What a shame, for I dearly love to laugh.”
    Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

  • #46
    Louisa May Alcott
    “I like good strong words that mean something…”
    Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

  • #47
    Louisa May Alcott
    “Jo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally…”
    Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

  • #48
    Louisa May Alcott
    “I hate ordinary people!”
    Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

  • #49
    Louisa May Alcott
    “I don't believe I shall ever marry; I'm happy as I am, and love my liberty too well to be in any hurry to give it up for any mortal man.”
    Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

  • #50
    Louisa May Alcott
    “I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me…”
    Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

  • #51
    Charlotte Brontë
    “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
    Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

  • #52
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

  • #53
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

  • #54
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

  • #55
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

  • #56
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

  • #57
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “It is such a mysterious place, the land of tears.”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

  • #58
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “You're beautiful, but you're empty...One couldn't die for you. Of course, an ordinary passerby would think my rose looked just like you. But my rose, all on her own, is more important than all of you together, since she's the one I've watered. Since she's the one I put under glass, since she's the one I sheltered behind the screen. Since she's the one for whom I killed the caterpillars (except the two or three butterflies). Since she's the one I listened to when she complained, or when she boasted, or even sometimes when she said nothing at all. Since she's my rose.”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

  • #59
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “You see, one loves the sunset when one is so sad.”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

  • #60
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince



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