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

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

But to appear happy when I am so miserable — Oh! who can require it?

Eleanor went to her room "where she was free to think and be wretched.

From a night of more sleep than she had expected, Marianne awoke the next morning to the same consciousness of misery in which she had closed her eyes.

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!

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.

I can feel no sentiment of approbation inferior to love.

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

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

And Marianne, who had the knack of finding her way in every house to the library, however it might be avoided by the family in general, soon procured herself a book.

The question of what exactly we remember when we listen to old recordings, or whether it can be called remembering at all, becomes less and less answerable over a lifetime.

Smiling always seems to annoy people more than actually insulting them. Or maybe I just have an annoying smile.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton you may as well make it dance.

If I were to give one piece of advice, I would say to never accept anything that you hear or see at face value. As a general rule of thumb, then the more you question, the better.

Of all the worldly passions, lust is the most intense. All other worldly passions seem to follow in its train.

Hillary Clinton is a very dishonest person, probably the most dishonest person ever to run for the office of president.

We can experience joy in adverse circumstances by holding God's benefits in such esteem that the recognition of them and meditation upon them shall overcome all sorrow.

Death is like my car. It takes me where I want to go.

Where are you going?” “To get a Coke!” “Would you—” “No!

It is difficult to experience moments of happiness if we are not aware of what it is we genuinely love.