" Jane.” Molly rubbed her arm. “You’ve got so much going on! You don’t need this Pembrook Park, and you definitely don’t need Mr. Darcy.”
“I know. I mean, he’s not even real. He’s not, he’s not, I know he’s not, but maybe…”
“There’s no maybe. He’s not real.”
Jane groaned. “But I don’t want to have to settle.”
“You always do. Every single guy you ever dated was a settle.”
She sat up. “None of them loved me, did they? Ever. Some of them liked me or I was convenient but…Am I truly that pathetic?”
Molly smoothed her hair. “No, of course not,” she said, which meant, Yes, but I love you anyway. "

― Shannon Hale , Austenland (Austenland, #1)