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endeavours to separate us were the means of removing all my doubts.
~ Jane Austen
After abusing you so abominably to your face, I could have no scruple in abusing you to all your relations.
~ Jane Austen
los bondadosos deseos de prosperidad expresados por todas las malévolas ancianas de Meryton apenas
~ Jane Austen
Everybody of any consequence or notoriety in Bath was well know by name to Mrs Smith.
~ Jane Austen
And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody. "And yours," he replied with a smile,"is willfully to misunderstand them.
~ Jane Austen
maid! and that's so dreadful!
~ Jane Austen
His regard for her was quite imaginary; and the possibility of her deserving her mother's reproach prevented his feeling any regret.
~ Jane Austen
People who suffer as I do from nervous complaints can have no great inclination for talking. Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.
~ Jane Austen
if Anne will stay, no one so proper, so capable as Anne.
~ Jane Austen
the history; that was the glory of Miss
~ Jane Austen
And your defect is to hate everybody.' 'And yours,' he replied with a smile, 'is willfully to misunderstand them.
~ Jane Austen
I am afraid you do not like your pen. Let me mend it for you. I mend pens remarkably well. Thank you -- but I can always mend my own. -- A dialogue between Caroline Bingley and Fitzwilliam Darcy.
~ Jane Austen
A cougar is a sexually active and confident woman who's a predator. Tell me you not flattered.
~ Jane Green
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~ Jane Green
Broadbent-Keeble, a respected pediatrician, came on a social call to visit Timothy
~ Jane Hawking
Most sentimental ideas imply, at bottom, a deep if unacknowledged disrespect.
~ Jane Jacobs
My guess was that the jobs were being added specifically in the GTA
~ Jane Jacobs
the novel is, above all, an intense experience of prolonged intimacy with another consciousness. But
~ Jane Smiley
you, Frankie. I just don't. You look like an angel, so
~ Jane Smiley
In fiction, the characters have their own lives. They may start as a gloss on the author's life, but they move on from there. In poetry, especially confessional poetry but in other poetry as well, the poet is not writing characters so much as emotional truth wrapped in metaphor. Bam! Pow! A shot to the gut.
~ Jane Yolen
You see, my dear ice witch, I have had the love of children from all over the world because of my stories. A child's love is the perfect love, for it is given with a whole heart. That love will outlast me a hundredfold. And it will outlast you as well.
~ Jane Yolen
The minute they were in the hall, he whispered to his father, "He's a pig." "Not kosher," Papa added, and they both chuckled.
~ Jane Yolen
You're a lunatic. You ran me over with a goddamn Buick.
~ Janet Evanovich
I'm sorry about your Porsche. I can replace the Porsche. I can't replace you. You need to be more careful. I was just sitting in your car! Babe, you're a magnet for disaster.
~ Janet Evanovich