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“where I have most injured I can least forgive.”

“The unkindness of your own relations has made you astonished to find friendship anywhere.”

“She expected from other people the same opinions and feelings as her own, and she judged of their motives by the immediate effect of their actions on herself.”

“Much as you suffer now, think of what you would have suffered if the discovery of his character had been delayed to a later period - if your engagement had been carried on for months and months, as it might have been, before he chose to put an end to it. Every additional day of unhappy confidence, on your side, would have made the blow more dreadful.”

“… so bitter were her feelings against him, that she dared not trust herself to speak, lest she might wound Marianne still deeper by treating their disengagement, not as a loss to her of any possible good but as an escape from the worst and most irremediable of all evils, a connection, for life, with an unprincipled man”

“Her own situation gained in the comparison; for while she could esteem Edward as much as ever, however they might me divided in future, her mind might be always supported. But every circumstance that could embitter such an evil seemed uniting to heighten the misery of Marianne in a final separation from Willoughby - in an immediate and irreconcilable rupture with him.”

“But still I might not have believe it, for where the mind is perhaps rather unwilling to be convinced, it will always find something to support its doubts”

“you have no confidence in me, Marianne.”
“Nau, Elinor, this is reproach from you - you who have confidence in no one!”
“Me! indeed, Marianne, I have nothing to tell.”
“Nor I, our situations then are alike. We have neither of us anything to tell; you, because you do not communicate, and I, because I conceal nothing.”