Emily

“Elizabeth, Beth, Betsy, and Bess, they all went together to find a bird's nest...”
― Shirley Jackson, The Bird's Nest

“A good turnout at church today. It had nothing to do with the mild weather and a desire to gossip and everything to do with my oratory skills, I am perfectly convinced. Indeed, if not for Mrs Attwood's new bonnet, I would have had the ladies' undivided attention. The gentlemen I was more certain of. They had no interest in bonnets, new or otherwise, and listened in pleasing silence, broken only by an occasional snore.”
― Amanda Grange, Henry Tilney's Diary

“That I have not yet met the right woman, and that there is no use my marrying unless I find someone I like as well as Emma,' I said.
He laughed, though I did not know why. There was nothing very amusing in what I had said.”
― Amanda Grange, Mr. Knightley's Diary

“If this is what it's like to be human, he thought, no wonder the world is so fucked up.”
― Daryl Gregory, The Devil's Alphabet