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Now they were as strangers; nay, worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted.
Jane Austen1775–1817Persuasion (1817), Chapter VIIIIn context
- Friendship
All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one; you need not covet it), is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.
Jane Austen1775–1817Persuasion (1817), Chapter XXIIIIn context
- Women
You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight years and a half ago.
Jane Austen1775–1817Persuasion (1817), Chapter XXIIIIn context
I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.
Jane Austen1775–1817Persuasion (1817), Chapter XXIIIIn context
But there certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are pretty women to deserve them.
Jane Austen1775–1817Mansfield Park (1814), Chapter IIn context
- Marriage
- Money
Is not general incivility the very essence of love?
Jane Austen1775–1817Pride and Prejudice (1813), Volume II, Chapter IIIn context
But vanity, not love, has been my folly.
Jane Austen1775–1817Pride and Prejudice (1813), Volume II, Chapter XIIIIn context
- Pride
There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.
Jane Austen1775–1817Emma (1815), Volume II, Chapter VIIn context
- Character
“I pay very little regard,” said Mrs. Grant, “to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.”
Jane Austen1775–1817Mansfield Park (1814), Chapter IVIn context
- Marriage
“I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman’s feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.”
Jane Austen1775–1817Mansfield Park (1814), Chapter XXXVIIn context
- Men
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
Jane Austen1775–1817Northanger Abbey (1817), Chapter 4In context
- Friendship
It is love alone that gives value to all things.
Teresa of Ávila1515–1582“V: Loving complaints and petitions; Martha’s complaint,” in The Collected Works of St. Teresa of Avila Vol. 1, p. 379.
It seems as if Thou didst subject those who love Thee to a severe trial: but it is in order that they may learn, in the depths of that trial, the depths of Thy love.
Teresa of Ávila1515–1582The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus (c.1565), Ch. XXV. “Divine Locutions. Discussions on That Subject” ¶ 22 & 23
- God
Real love stories never have endings.
Richard Bachborn 1936
The opposite of loneliness, it’s not togetherness. It is intimacy.
Richard Bachborn 1936The Bridge Across Forever (1984)