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Jane Austen Fan Fiction Quotes

“Who can explain the laws of attraction that beset a person for whom one source of love and comfort is lost, and yet another arrives to replace it?”

“Is this a conspiracy to find me a wife? Are engagements infectious? When one has been announced, it needs must be followed by another?”

“That a woman—of age, well-read, and well-educated—could not be expected to comprehend the stirrings of the heart when men grew passionate for a cause, or grew restless for change, was a grave affront indeed. That her beloved father, who carefully nurtured her every curiosity, and her brother, who lovingly shared every lesson learned, would believe her to be insensible or incapable of aspiring to better the world tore at her heart. She strove to maintain some sort of equanimity but the nature of the events was far too implausible to allow. “It is a bitter pill to swallow,” she murmured at length. “It seems the men in my family deemed it necessary to withhold their dearest worldly concerns from me, after all we had been to one another.”