From This Day Forward - The Darcys of Pemberley Quotes

“Think of the rest of your life. Settle within yourself with whom you have most in common, and who is most likely to share your thoughts and joys and wishes. Think not so much of large family gatherings and their approval, although it has its place and can cause a great deal of vexation when it is withheld, but think more of quiet times, when not a vast deal happens. Whom would you be most comfortable with on a cold and dreary winter evening, with no one for company but yourselves? Whom can you see yourself grow old with, and still laugh together and, most essentially, talk. Which one is most likely to share his troubles with you, and listen, and take comfort from what you have to say - but of equal import, whom do you want at your side at times of loss and anguish? For offering comfort is well and good and makes one feel needed, but you have to know that your partner in life is someone you can depend upon to be [a] tower of strength....I have every confidence that you will find the answers.”
― Joana Starnes, From This Day Forward - The Darcys of Pemberley