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.

"Du må treffe et sørgelig valg, Elizabeth.

Fra denne dag av må du være som en fremmed for den ene av dine foreldre. Din mor vil ikke se deg hvis du ikke gifter deg med Mr. Collins, og jeg vil ikke se deg hvis du gjør det."

Elizabeth kunne ikke la være å smile over en slik begynnelse på en setning, og en slik avslutning.

Tenk å bli motarbeidet av sin egen familie, og dertil av naboer som først og fremst tenker på seg selv og aldri på andre.

Ja, det er virkelig en stor trøst for meg at dere er kommet, og det er interessant å høre at det nå skal være lange ermer på kjolene.

But if you can gaze up at the stars at nigh and think fondly of your lost love, then it's worth falling in love and losing him.

"Did it end in heartache, dear?" "Well, yes, but it was the good kind of heartache (...) The kind where you'll always think fondly of each other, even though you know your love could never be."

Our lives mighta been much different if we'd had our way instead of God having His way.

Then one day, someone waved the magic wand again and broke the spell. Time became unfrozen, and after waiting and waiting for something to happen, everything happened at once.

I wont to get more involved in life from now on, instead of just reading about it in books. I want tot spend more time with people (...)

If I've learned anything while I've been here, it's how important it is to have family and friends and people around us to share our lives with.

"That's what comes from reading to many books. They give you an overactive imagination."

"Well, you read a lot of books, too." "I know, and I'm having the same problem you are."

"The best advice I can offer is this: Don't go into any relationship thinking you can change the other person.

Accept him the way he is right now, for the rest of his life. And he needs to accept you, too."

"We loved each other, Allie. But even true love doesn't always make things easy (..) The way we were raised, family expectations, goals and dreams. Those are all part of who we are."

"No matter how much you love someone, Allie, don't expect marriage to be easy."

"True love changes people, Allie.

When you're in love, you want to do things to please the other person and make them happy..."

Jesus said life is gonna be hard. Period. He said if you're gonna follow Him, then you're gonna carry a cross, just like He did.

This world of ours is under a curse, honey. We need to expect things to be bad. But even if we lose everything, we still have Jesus.

"Them weeds should all be pulled up or theu'll choke out the good plants.

Weeds are just like hatred and greed, you know. If you ain't careful, they'll choke all the love and compassion out of a person."

"Jesus tells ut to be praying, 'Forgive us our debts just like we're forgiving others,' because He knows if we don't pray for that every single day and remind ourselves to forgive, we ain't gonna be doing it.

And I need His help, honey-girl. Without it, I surely can't forgive all the people who wronged me."

A rush of hot air made my face even redder. Sometimes I hate being a fair-skinned blonde.

People could read my distress like a thermometer as the color filled or drained from my cheeks.

She caressed the worn cover and smiled faintly again.

I knew the anticipation June Ann felt as she was about to open a book and lose herself in the story, living a more interesting, colorful life along with the characters.

When a person's in love, all you gotta do is mention her lover and her face starts glowing like a harvest moon (...) Most people smile when they speak the name of the man they love. And you ain't smiling.

"But even worse than them broken bodies were the broken hearts." "What do you mean?"

"Folks get set on having their own way, and they end up with their hearts broken when it don't happen.

God's the one who's deciding what's going to be and what ain't. He knows what's best even if we're too stubborn to realize it sometimes. We're like little kids fighting over the wishbone, squabbling about who's gonna get his wish.

Bible says that even though we make lots of plans, it's the Lord who's gonna have His way."