“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”
@moviesources cinema month event ↬ 1/3 romance films: pride & prejudice (2005)
You have bewitched me, body and soul… and I love… I love… I love you… I never wish to be parted from you from this day on…
get to know me meme: [6/20] movies ♡ pride and prejudice (2005) “You must know… surely, you must know it was all for you. You are too generous to trifle with me. I believe you spoke with my aunt last night, and it has taught me to hope as I’d scarcely allowed myself before. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes have not changed, but one word from you will silence me forever. If, however, your feelings have changed, I will have to tell you: you have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you. I never wish to be parted from you from this day on.”
Only the deepest love will persuade me into matrimony, which is why I will end up an old maid.
I couldn’t sleep. Nor I.
I will never relinquish my sword for a ring!
Pride and Prejudice (2005)
“Miss Elizabeth. I have struggled in vain and can bear it no longer.”
For Florian, with lots of love.
Only the deepest love will persuade me into matrimony, which is why I will end up an old maid.
[Emma] lost no time in hurrying into the shrubbery.—There, with spirits freshened, and thoughts a little relieved, she had taken a few turns, when she saw Mr. Knightley passing through the garden door, and coming towards her… She had been thinking of him the moment before, as unquestionably sixteen miles distant.—There was time only for the quickest arrangement of mind. She must be collected and calm.
– Jane Austen, Emma, Volume III, Chapter XIII
For when a young lady is to be a heroine, something must and will happen to throw adventure in her way.
I could more easily forgive his vanity had he not wounded mine.
The delightful assurance of her total indifference towards Frank Churchill, of her having a heart completely disengaged from him, had given birth to the hope, that, in time, he might gain her affection himself…
– Jane Austen, Emma, Volume III, Chapter XIII
I could more easily forgive his vanity had he not wounded mine.