To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect - Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

"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."

"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!"

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

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

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