Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

"To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect"

"It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do."

"I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be yours."

"If a book is well written, I always find it too short."

"The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!"

"…told herself likewise not to hope. But it was too late. Hope had already entered…"

"If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy."