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“Love each other or perish”
― Auden

“Don’t you know what that is? It’s spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you’ve got it, you want—oh, you don’t quite know what it is you DO want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!”
― Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer, Detective

“It is not what we think or feel that makes us who we are. It is what we do. Or fail to do...”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“I am excessively fond of a cottage; there is always so much comfort, so much elegance about them. And I protest, if I had any money to spare, I should buy a little land and build one myself, within a short distance of London, where I might drive myself down at any time, and collect a few friends about me and be happy. I advise everybody who is going to build, to build a cottage.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“When so many hours have been spent convincing myself I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“But a good life is knowing people care about you, knowing you can take care of the people that count on you, knowing you’re doing a little something in your community.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Malibu Rising