She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned... - Jane Austen, Persuasion

"You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you."

"Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left."

"she thought it was the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and that the strong feelings which alone could estimate it truly, were the very feelings which ought to taste it but sparingly."

"Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything."

"...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure."