Status Updates From The Unselected Journals of ...

I’ve already laughed aloud several times. What a delight to be back!!

"Is it immoral to marry a man solely to gain a library? And if that man happens to be tremendously good looking, is it more or less of a sin?"

Obviously I am not rooting for Roland in a romantic sense, but they are such good chums now that I could see Emma being pretty happy with his library, all things considered.

“My mother says that there are no greater dens of iniquity than the country houses of wealthy Englishmen.”

Agnes' mother is amazing.

"And as for your misled determination at being lighthearted, I forbid it. A person of middling status cannot afford to feel happy about everything all of the time. That is an expensive state of mind.”
“What shall I be instead?”
“Light-minded would suffice. An appearance of pleasing stupidity prepares a woman for marriage."

Aunt Eugenia = Judi Dench