Quotes About Jane

Jane resented him for it, but she didn't blame him. Her mother inspired in almost everyone who encountered her a vicious desire for escape.

Jane cupped her coffee in both hands and blew across the steam so it curled from her lips like a musing dragon's breath.

Halb möchte sie Pazifistin sein - wie Christopher -, und in gewisser Hinsicht bin ich auch der Meinung,' sagte Polly. 'Aber sie möchte auch Flugzeuge fliegen und ein U-Boot kommandieren können, was nicht besonders logisch ist, Archie, da musst du mir recht geben

Jane had spent too many hours in elevators and pathology rooms, and the pallor of strip lighting haunted her like a twelve-year-old's memories of a bad dream.

That scolding I gave her was probably just what she needed, and I daresay it'll last for a month." "I'm glad you're pleased," answered Jane. "A cringing worm is what you want, not a bright, smiling child.

While I have some regrets that this is my last opportunity to deliver a State of the State address, I appreciate and am humbled by the opportunities this great state has given me.

I never really marketed myself, so each job I was given was a new marketing tool, and that would be the way I marketed myself.

And Pride and Prejudice was the most stunning, bite-your-hand romance ever, the kind that stared straight into Jane's soul and made her shudder.

That pesky movie version was the culprit. Sure, Jane had first read Pride and Prejudice when she was sixteen, read it a dozen times since, and read the other Austen novels at least twice, except Northanger Abbey (of course).

Aunt Jane observed, the second time She tumbled off a bus, 'The step is short from the Sublime To the Ridiculous.

I believe that we have more capability than any other creature to control our biological inheritance - and we do so most of the time.

To Jane Austen, for making romance novels classics and keepers for generations.

The mere habit of learning to love is the thing; and a teachableness of disposition in a young lady is a great blessing

Once more Jane sat staring at the telephone. This time she was filled with a confidence that was new to her. Stan Crandall. Stanley Crandall. He liked her! He had seen her once, and even though had been rumpled and grass-stained and having a terrible time with Sandra, he liked her well enough to go to the trouble of finding out her name and calling to ask her to go to the movies. Jane smiled at the telephone and gave a sigh of happiness

I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.

I love making movies, but I was ready to rationalize being only a mother if my career never got back on track.

Hey, uh, you know. Um. If you're alive, uh, call me." I looked at the screen and said, "It's Jane." I closed the phone, thinking, Lame. I am so lame.

Not your Jane," I snapped, but it was spoiled by my raspy, gasping voice. "Your Enforcer. Not your Jane." Leo chuckled, a vamp's hunting purr that made Beast sit up and purr back. I kept the sound inside my head, but Beast liked Leo a little too much for my tastes. "You make the chase so delightful," he said. "Stuff it." Leo burst out laughing, my purr buried beneath his pure amusement.

The last story, "Off the Grid," is one I'm incredibly excited about. It's from Jane's point of view, and it introduces a character named Nell Nicholson.

I never show my books to Ricky. His writing is very different, and anyway, he's only read one novel in his life: 'The Catcher in the Rye.'

Providence, assuredly, is a mysterious mover, and who is Jane to ignore it's direction?

Delightful,' Eliza murmured. 'He looks so well against the scarlet hangings, don't you agree, Jane? One should always have a decorative young man about the room, and well-bred if one may contrive it; it lends so much tone to the display.

Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough, for he had nothing to do, and she had hardly any body to love." (of Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth, Persuasion)

Compulsion hardly restores right; love yields all things.