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21 " If you're listening Big Brother, I refuse to be Fanny Price. "
― Shannon Hale , Austenland (Austenland, #1)
22 " I know they are naught things, but I devour novels.” (p. 57). "
23 " I couldn't see what was real until time had washed away everything else. "
24 " Why was the judgment of the disapproving so valuable? Who said that their good opinions tended to be any more rational than those of generally pleasant people? "
25 " Later, when they would spend straight hours conversing in the dark, Jane would realize that Henry kissed the way he talked- his entire attention taut, focused, intensely hers. "
26 " Without hope, it was impossible to fantasize. "
27 " She was not who she'd thought she was. No one was. "
28 " Figure out what is real for you. No use leaning on someone else’s story all your life. "
29 " Mr Nobley: "Ah here you are. Miss Erstwhile. You are infuriating and irritating, and yet I find myself looking for you. I would be grateful if you would send me away and make me swear to never return. "
30 " I wasn't aware until this precise and awkward moment that when startled in a strange place, my instincts would have me pretend to be a ninja. "
31 " Besides being witty and funny and maybe the best novel ever written, it’s also the most perfect romance in all of literature and nothing in life can ever measure up, so I spend my life limping in its shadow. "
32 " That's the word he'd used - stunning. It's a difficult word to dismiss. She longed to be that word to someone. "
33 " [Boyfriend #8] He left for an internship in Guatamala, a step towards his future career in international affairs. They both cried at the airport. He returned 6 months later and, didn't call. Last year, Jane heard that Bobby, 'Robert' now, was running for Congress. At a recent polling, he wasn't doing so hot in the 30-something-jilted-female demographic. "
34 " She was craving anything real - bad smells and stupid men, missed trains and tedious jobs. But she remembered that mixed up in the ugly parts of reality were also those true moments of grace - peaches in September, honest laughter, perfect light. "
35 " She felt really alone now. But here's the thing- suddenly she felt as though she belonged inside the aloneness, and that feeling made her whisper aloud, "I never have before. I've never felt at home with myself. "
36 " Colonel Andrews was fair-haired with a decent set of shoulders and a very ready smile. He could not seem more pleased to see her, bowing without removing his gaze from her face. 'What a pleasure. A very, pleasant pleasure, indeed.'The way his tone slid over his words gave him a delightful, roguish appeal that made Jane want to kiss him on the spot. Or the lips. Whichever was closer. "
37 " He wildly combed his hair with his fingers. “I can’t bear to be out there with you right now, all those indifferent people watching you, admiring you, but not really caring. Not as I do.” Jane: (hopeful) Really? Jane: (practical) Oh, stop that. "
38 " That’s what I’m trying to tell you. You’re irresistible.” “I am not.” “I’m not happy about it. You really are the most irritating person I’ve ever met. I’d managed to avoid any women of any temptation whatsoever for four years—a very easy task in Pembrook Park. Things were going splendidly, I was right on track to die alone and unnoticed. And then … "
39 " She believed now in earnest that fantasy is not practice for what is real— fantasy is the opiate of women. "
40 " Nonrefundable. It was a good, solid word, one you couldn't chew, one that only dissolved after sucking slowly. "