~And though you think the world is at your feet, it can rise up and tread on you~

"Dear Miss Morland, consider the dreadful nature of the suspicions you have entertained. What have you been judging from? Remember the country and the age in which we live. Remember that we are English, that we are Christians. Consult your own understanding, your own sense of the probable, your own observation of what is passing around you. Does our education prepare us for such atrocities? Do our laws connive at them? Could they be perpetrated without being known, in a country like this, where social and literary intercourse is on such a footing, where every man is surrounded by a neighbourhood of voluntary spies, and where roads and newspapers lay everything open? Dearest Miss Morland, what ideas have you been admitting?"
They had reached the end of the gallery, and with tears of shame she ran off to her own room.”

Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.

Am I gonna leave without a sound?

I feel alright

It's just another Sunday morning
Then it's Sunday night
I feel alright

Lost in Austen

"Never mind the Bingley, bring on the Darcy"

I'm not hung up about Darcy. I do not sit at home with the pause button on Colin Firth in clingy pants, okay? I love the love story. I love Elizabeth. I love the manners and language and the courtesy. It's become part of who I am and what I want. I'm saying that I have standards.

Elizabeth Bennet: Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy of Pemberley? I am your wife.
Mr. Darcy: I do not recall marrying you, Madam. I think I would have noticed if I had.
Elizabeth Bennet: We have been married nearly 200 years.

Everyone you know miss Price will one day pry your fingers from the raft and watch you drown, it's the way of the world, everyone...Except me.

Hear that sound, George? Duh-uh-uh-uh! That's Jane Austen spinning in her grave like a cat in a tumble-dryer.

Amanda Price: The rest of us are gonna say goodbye nicely and watch you step through all that plumbing into fictional Georgian England and that'll be it. And then we'll all spend the rest of our lives in therapy. It's going to be fine.

Amanda Price: Look, in the book you don't exactly hit it off - to begin with. Just keep talking. From the talking comes the love.

Amanda Price: I need to use the telephone. I need to call my boyfriend.
Elizabeth Bennet: Of course.
Amanda Price: Elizabeth Bennet is lending me her mobile.

God almighty, here you are. One half of the greatest love story ever told.


Mr. Darcy: Amanda. It means 'She who must be loved'.
Amanda Price: You must not. You must not...
Mr. Darcy: Wherefore must I not? Who is to judge us? I have laboured so long in the service of propriety.
Amanda Price: Elizabeth. I am not Elizabeth. The entire world will hate me!
Mr. Darcy: Were that true, Amanda, I would fight the world! You are the one I love.

"–Me encanta recordar el pasado, Edward. Aunque sea melancólico o alegre, me encanta recuperarlo y jamás me ofenderá que hables de los viejos tiempo. Estás muy acertado al suponer cómo gastaría mi dinero – al menos, una parte de él – mi dinero suelto lo usaría en ampliar mi colección de música y de libros" ~ Sensatez y sentimientos.

Becoming Jane

"Mrs. Radcliffe: Of what do you wish to write?
Jane Austen: Of the heart.
Mrs. Radcliffe: Do you know it?
Jane Austen: Not all of it.
Mrs. Radcliffe: In time, you will. But even if that fails, that's what the imagination is for."



Tom Lefroy: I have no money, no property, I am entirely dependent upon that bizarre old lunatic, my uncle. I cannot yet offer marriage, but you must know what I feel. Jane, I'm yours. God, I'm yours. I'm yours, heart and soul. Much good that is.
Jane Austen: Let me decide that.
Tom Lefroy: What will we do?
Jane Austen: What we must.





"Jane Austen: A novel must show how the world truly is, how characters genuinely think, how events actually occur. A novel should somehow reveal the true source of our actions."


♥

Lost in Austen

It is a truth generally acknowledged that we are all longing to escape. I escape always to my favourite book "Pride and Prejudice". I've read it so many times now the words just say themselves in my head and it's like a window opening, it's like I'm actually there. It's become a place I know so intimately I can see that world, I can touch it. I can see Darcy.

Jane Austen's heroines

La vanidad y el orgullo son cosas diferentes, aunque las palabras a menudo se usan como sinónimos. Una persona puede ser orgullosa sin ser vanidosa. El orgullo se relaciona con la opinión que tenemos sobre nosotros mismos, la vanidad con la que quisiéramos que los otros tengan de nosotros. ~ Jane Austen.

I ♥ Mr Darcy