Khadijah add a quote by Jane Austen

Sun, 14 Oct 2012 02:18:25 -0700

"I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach. 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. Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant. You alone have brought me to Bath. For you alone, I think and plan. Have you not seen this? Can you fail to have understood my wishes? I had not waited even these ten days, could I have read your feelings, as I think you must have penetrated mine. I can hardly write. I am every instant hearing something which overpowers me. You sink your voice, but I can distinguish the tones of that voice when they would be lost on others. Too good, too excellent creature! You do us justice, indeed. You do believe that there is true attachment and constancy among men. Believe it to be most fervent, most undeviating, in F. W. I must go, uncertain of my fate; but I shall return hither, or follow your party, as soon as possible. A word, a look, will be enough to decide whether I enter your father's house this evening or never." -- Jane Austen

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Sun, 14 Oct 2012 02:18:48 -0700

"Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love." -- Jane Austen

Khadijah add a quote by Douglas McGrath

Sun, 14 Oct 2012 02:18:50 -0700

"Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another!" -- Douglas McGrath

Khadijah add a quote by Jane Austen

Sun, 14 Oct 2012 02:18:58 -0700

"You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you." -- Jane Austen

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Sun, 14 Oct 2012 02:18:59 -0700

"Angry people are not always wise." -- Jane Austen

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Sun, 14 Oct 2012 02:19:08 -0700

"A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment." -- Jane Austen

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Sun, 14 Oct 2012 02:22:33 -0700

"It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do." -- Jane Austen

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Sun, 14 Oct 2012 02:22:17 -0700

"I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control. " -- Jane Austen

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Sun, 14 Oct 2012 02:22:46 -0700

"I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives." -- Jane Austen

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Sun, 14 Oct 2012 02:23:02 -0700

"My idea of good company...is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.' 'You are mistaken,' said he gently, 'that is not good company, that is the best." -- Jane Austen

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Sun, 14 Oct 2012 02:24:38 -0700

"If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more." -- Jane Austen

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Sun, 14 Oct 2012 02:24:31 -0700

"I cannot make speeches, Emma...If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me. I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it." -- Jane Austen

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Sun, 14 Oct 2012 02:24:36 -0700

"How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel!" -- Dodie Smith

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Sun, 14 Oct 2012 02:25:40 -0700

"Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope." -- Jane Austen

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Sun, 14 Oct 2012 02:26:57 -0700

"I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness. [...] Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other. If I could persuade myself that my manners were perfectly easy and graceful, I should not be shy." -- Jane Austen

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Sun, 14 Oct 2012 02:26:58 -0700

"I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself." -- Jane Austen

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Sun, 14 Oct 2012 02:27:59 -0700

"Elinor could sit still no longer. She almost ran out of the room, and as soon as the door was closed, burst into tears of joy, which at first she thought would never cease." -- Jane Austen

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Sun, 14 Oct 2012 02:28:34 -0700

"She tried to explain the real state of the case to her sister. "I do not attempt to deny," said she, "that I think very highly of him--that I greatly esteem, that I like him." Marianne here burst with forth with indignation: "Esteem him! Like him! Cold-hearted Elinor. Oh! worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise. Use those words again, and I will leave the room this moment." Elinor could not help laughing. "Excuse me," said she, "and be assured that I meant no offence to you, by speaking, in so quiet a way, of my own feelings." -- Jane Austen

Khadijah add a quote by Stasi Eldredge

Sun, 14 Oct 2012 02:30:36 -0700

"There is an emotional promiscuity we’ve noticed among many good young men and women. The young man understands something of the journey of the heart. He wants to talk, to “share the journey.” The woman is grateful to be pursued, she opens up. They share the intimacies of their lives - their wounds, their walks with God. But he never commits. He enjoys her... then leaves. And she wonders, What did I do wrong? She failed to see his passivity. He really did not ever commit or offer assurances that he would. Like Willoughby to Marianne in Sense and Sensibility. Be careful you do not offer too much of yourself to a man until you have good, solid evidence that he is a strong man willing to commit. Look at his track record with other women. Is there anything to be concerned about there? If so, bring it up. Also, does he have any close male friends - and what are they like as men? Can he hold down a job? Is he walking with God in a real and intimate way? Is he facing the wounds of his own life, and is he also demonstrating a desire to repent of Adam’s passivity and/or violence? Is he headed somewhere with his life? A lot of questions, but your heart is a treasure, and we want you to offer it only to a man who is worthy and ready to handle it well." -- Stasi Eldredge

Khadijah add a quote by Emma Thompson

Sun, 14 Oct 2012 02:31:30 -0700

"Is love a fancy or a feeling.... or a Ferrars?" -- Emma Thompson

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Sun, 14 Oct 2012 02:31:36 -0700

"I have not wanted syllables where actions have spoken so plainly." -- Jane Austen

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Sun, 14 Oct 2012 02:31:37 -0700

"Know your own happiness." -- Jane Austen

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Sun, 14 Oct 2012 02:31:51 -0700

"It was told to me, it was in a manner forced on me by the very person herself whose prior engagement ruined all my prospects, and told me, as I thought, with triumph. This person's suspicions, therefore, I have had to oppose by endeavouring to appear indifferent where I have been most deeply interested; and it has not been only once; I have had her hopes and exultations to listen to again and again. I have known myself to be divided from Edward forever, without hearing one circumstance that could make me less desire the connection. Nothing has proved him unworthy; nor has anything declared him indifferent to me. I have had to content against the unkindness of his sister and the insolence of his mother, and have suffered the punishment of an attachment without enjoying its advantages. And all this has been going on at the time when, as you too well know, it has not been my only unhappiness. If you can think me capable of ever feeling, surely you may suppose that I have suffered now." -- Jane Austen

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Sun, 14 Oct 2012 02:32:28 -0700

"Always resignation and acceptance. Always prudence and honour and duty. Elinor, where is your heart?" -- Jane Austen

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Sun, 14 Oct 2012 02:32:47 -0700

"she was oppressed, she was overcome by her own felicity; and happily disposed as is the human mind to be easily familiarized with any change for the better, it required several hours to give sedateness to her spirits, or any degree of tranquillity to her heart." -- Jane Austen

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Sun, 14 Oct 2012 02:33:46 -0700

"There is a painful difference between the expectation of an unpleasant event and its final certainty." -- Emma Thompson

Khadijah add a quote by Paulo Coelho

Sun, 14 Oct 2012 02:39:10 -0700

"And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it." -- Paulo Coelho

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Sun, 14 Oct 2012 02:39:25 -0700

"When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too." -- Paulo Coelho

Khadijah add a quote by Oscar Wilde

Tue, 16 Oct 2012 02:14:38 -0700

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all." -- Oscar Wilde

Khadijah add a quote by Anton Chekhov

Tue, 16 Oct 2012 02:16:25 -0700

"Idea for a short story. The shore of a lake, a young girl who's spent her whole life beside it, a girl like you She loves the lake the way a seagull does, and she's happy and free as a seagull. Then a man comes along, sees her, and ruins her life because he has nothing better to do. Destroys her like this seagull here." -- Anton Chekhov