Vain and Useless Quotes

“She had pursued acceptance for so long that to be handed it with a smile was as disorienting as it was heady.”
― Frances Reynolds, Vain and Useless: A Pride and Prejudice Variation

“He allowed himself the indulgence of imagining Miss Elizabeth at Pemberley, of showing her its halls, its paths and gardens, and in the longing he felt to make those images real, he at last came to know that Bingley was not the only gentleman utterly lost to a daughter of Longbourn.”
― Frances Reynolds, Vain and Useless: A Pride and Prejudice Variation

“She turned that smile on Darcy, and he felt as though she could ask him for his house in Mayfair and he might sign it over.”
― Frances Reynolds, Vain and Useless: A Pride and Prejudice Variation

“She was not, perhaps, a great beauty, but she was undeniably handsome; her eyes were remarkably fine. When she smiled, she was luminous, and when she laughed, she outshone the moon.”
― Frances Reynolds, Vain and Useless: A Pride and Prejudice Variation