“For it was a truth universally acknowledged that a single vicar must be in want of a wife.”
Source: Wicked Autumn
“Remind me why I'm doing this again?" I whispered back.
"For your real friends, of course: Me, Caleb, and Chad."
"That's sweet of you to say, but I'm not sure we're all friends. Mr. Darcy over here," I indicated Caleb with a nod, "finds me barely tolerable.”
Source: Tempestuous
“All the Jane Austen in the library cannot wash the Queens from this little hand.”
Source: Good Boys and Dead Girls: And Other Essays
“Jane Austen would be so proud. Another girl trussed up for a fancy party."
"On the contrary, she'd be horrified. All that skin. You'd need about another five yards of material.”
Source: Pride, Prejudice, and Cheese Grits
“There's no way on God's green earth that I'm dressing up like Mr. Darcy." Brooks stretched out on Caroline's bed, hanging his suede wing tips off the edge and crossing his ankles. He laced his fingers behind his head and looked infuriatingly cool and relaxed.
"Not Mr. Darcy. That's the guy from Pride and Prejudice. You're supposed to come as Mr. Knightley.”
Source: Emma, Mr. Knightley, and Chili-Slaw Dogs
“I feel weird.” Caroline blinked a few times. “Do you feel weird?”
Brooks shrugged. “How weird? We’re all dressed like people in a Jane Austen book. I think weird comes with the territory.”
Source: Emma, Mr. Knightley, and Chili-Slaw Dogs
“Mr. Darcy regains my interest. As if he ever lost it.
“Mmhmm, thanks.” The phone clicks back in its charger. My sister springs up from the floor mummy-style. “That traitor!”
Okay, Darcy, see you later. I close the book. “Who was that?”
Source: The Crush
“Thank you. There were three of us kids, all right together. I’m the oldest, she was the knee-baby, and my brother Henry came last. Funny, I miss her all the time, but I miss her most when I’m reading Austen. We’d been fans since we were in the seventh and eighth grade, two Creole girls gigglin’ about marriage proposals gone bad. Our daddy teased us about reading each other passages during a Fourth of July crawfish boil, so he named the biggest one Mr. Darcy and threw him in the pot.” She looked up, a smile fighting the tears in her eyes. “We refused to eat him.”
Source: Persuasion, Captain Wentworth and Cracklin' Cornbread
“Let’s get this movie started. There’s nothing like a little Austen to soothe the wounded soul,” Theresa said.”
Source: Persuasion, Captain Wentworth and Cracklin' Cornbread
“A woman of little propriety may not receive the public’s respect, but she will gain their attendance.”
Source: Dearest Josephine