A twitch upon the thread.

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She said little, but every sentence aimed at cheerfulness; and though a sigh sometimes escapes her, it never passes away without the atonement of a smile.

~ Sense and Sensibility-Jane Austen (via kristinaalicia)

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Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion

~ Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (via quotes-shape-us)

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I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

~ Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (via bookmania)

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Jane Austen - Opening lines from Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen - Opening lines from Pride and Prejudice

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I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness.

~ Edward Ferrars, Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen (via mwonderland)

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I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! — When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

~ Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (via everydayfelicities)

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Can the soul be really be satisfied with such polite affections? To love is to burn - to be on fire!

~ Sense & Sensibility (via tenderbeat)

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There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.

~ Jane Austen in Pride and Prejudice (via astrangerhere)

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I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness. Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other. If I could persuade myself that my manners were perfectly easy and graceful, I should not be shy.

~ Jane Austen (via vastpastiche)

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