The Austen Escape Quotes

“Time was never neutral and often felt dangerous. We either think we have all the time in the world or time moves too fast or too slow, a shock can stop time; fear or impending pain can slow it. Time never simply is…And no matter how much you want to hang on to it, time runs out.”
― Katherine Reay, The Austen Escape

“He said that how people treat you is only 10 percent about you and 90 percent about them, so you need to be careful how you react and how you judge. You never know someone's story.”
― Katherine Reay, The Austen Escape

“Music is math, and one you understand that…How can anyone not be in awe? It’s the audible expression behind the laws of the universe. It feels like the only thing, apart from God, that lives outside time. Once released, it lives on and it can make you laugh and cry, rip you apart and heal you, all withing a few discrete notes strung together. And while it follows rules, expression is limitless.”
― Katherine Reay, The Austen Escape

“There was nothing “bright and sparkling” about this one. It was subdued, almost melancholy. Heroine Anne Elliot, perhaps my favorite of the Austen women I’d encountered, waited as circumstances and her world closed in around her. She helped where she could, got tossed about with little care—and she waited.”
― Katherine Reay, The Austen Escape

“Music is math, and once you understand that . . . How can anyone not be in awe? It’s the audible expression behind the laws of the universe. It feels like the only thing, apart from God, that lives outside time. Once released, it lives on and it can make you laugh and cry, rip you apart and heal you, all within a few discrete notes strung together. And while it follows rules, expression is limitless.”
― Katherine Reay, The Austen Escape

“My mom used to have her own hymnal. It was as marked up as her Bible. She sang in the church choir for years. She said she felt closest to God in music.”
― Katherine Reay, The Austen Escape

“Austen really had a thing against Marys.”
― Katherine Reay, The Austen Escape

“Whenever I doubted the saying that hate wasn’t the opposite of love, I thought of Isabel’s father and remembered—indifference was.”
― Katherine Reay, The Austen Escape

“Karen”
― Katherine Reay, The Austen Escape

“She wrote with such precision that a single phrase evoked an emotional response. She elicited laughter, warmth, and even a sense of awe. Across two hundred years, I recognized her characters in the here and now. She wrote about people I knew.”
― Katherine Reay, The Austen Escape

“You Will Never Have This Day Again So Make It Count”
― Katherine Reay, The Austen Escape

“I grabbed my Kindle from the table and tapped to Persuasion—”
― Katherine Reay, The Austen Escape