Dec 22, 2021
Nelly Dean having to deal with everyone's shit due to being the narrative voice:
I felt so bad for her, for the whole book everyone was just trauma dumping on her. #nelly Dean appreciation
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Nelly Dean having to deal with everyone's shit due to being the narrative voice:
I felt so bad for her, for the whole book everyone was just trauma dumping on her. #nelly Dean appreciation
“I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.”
- Persuasion, Jane Austen
"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship."
- Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
-Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."
-Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen
"I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other."
-Emma, Jane Austen
Captain Wentworth's letter to Anne Elliot
"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."
-Persuasion, Jane Austen