{Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen}

“Preserve yourself from a first love and you need not fear a second.”
“Elinor: I do not attempt to deny that I think very highly of him- that I greatly esteem him.. I like himMarianne: Esteem him? Like him? Use those insipid words again and I shall leave the room this instant”
“Elinor: Would you have him treat him worse than Willoughby has treated you?Marianne: No. But nor would I have him marry someone he does not love.”

“Elinor: Rather too unspoilt, in my view. The sooner she becomes acquainted with the ways of the world, the better.

Colonel Brandon: I knew a lady very like your sister - the same impulsive sweetness of temper -who was forced into, as you put it, a better acquaintance of the world. The result was only ruination and despair. Do not desire it, Miss Dashwood.”

{Emma by Jane Austen}

“I didn’t mind the quiet stretches. It was like we were trying out the idea of being side by side.”
“…and must give him proof of its being a great deal better to choose than to be chose, to excite gratitude rather than to feel it.”
“They do fall in love with well-informed minds instead of handsome faces.”
“One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.”
“It is always the lady’s right to decide on the degree of acquaintance.”
“Wickedness is always wickedness but folly is not always folly.”
“She was his own, by word and hand.”

{Persuasion by Jane Austen}

“An agreeable manner may set off handsome features but never alter plain ones.”
“She prized the frank, the open-hearted, the eager character beyond all others.”
“But the men are all riled after Miss Elliot, Anne is much too delicate for them.”favorite line ever

{A Separate Peace by John Knowles}

“What I mean is, I love winter, and when you really love something, then it loves you back, in whatever way it has to love”
“What deceived me was my own happiness; for peace was indivisible, and the surrounding world confusion found no reflection inside me. So I ceased to have any real sense of it.”
“Once again, I had the desolating sense of having all along ignored what was finest in him.”
“My aid to him had never seemed to him in the category of help. He had thought of me as extension of himself.”

{Along for the Ride by Sarah Dessen}

“There’s something about living at the beach in the summer. You get used to the sun and sand that gets hard to remember the rest of the world, and the year is like.”
“Just something you have to do. No excuse or rationale necessary.”
“To be a kid, you had to leave home. It was returning that made you grow up once and for all.”
“There was a grace to it, an effortlessness that made it clear how hard it really had to be. Maybe the truth was, it shouldn’t be easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It’s the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth.”
“When something is difficult to come by you’ll do that much more to make sure its even harder - if not impossible - to lose.”
“I could not bear to think that a choice I made in my life had some how ruined yours.”

{Little Bee by Chris Cleave}

“No it is not the queen’s scepter and crown that rule the land. It is her grammar and her voice. That is why it is desirable to speak the way she does.”
“I could not stop talking, now I had started my story and it wanted to be finished. We cannot choose where we start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us.

{The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender}

“Perhaps, at twenty, one is not naturally curious about life, but at thirty, one is naturally suspicious of anyone who still has one.”
“I lay against the pillow and aged many years in that hour on my own.”


{The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks}

“I’d be willing to bet that you were great at it, if only because you have to love something before you can hate it.”
{The School of Essential Ingredients by Erica Bavermeister}
“People learn Rory, I’d hate to think there is an age when we have to stop.”
“Skinny girls, they think you attract bees with a stick!”
“He always said that if you looked hard enough, you could see where each person carried his soul in his body.”
“If you live in your senses, slowly, with attention, if you use your eyes and your fingertips and your taste buds then romance is something you’ll never need a greeting card to remember.”
“And he realized, more than telling her what he thought, he wanted to her what she had to say.”


{Dear John by Nicholas Sparks}

“Those things are still real to me, but where they once brought me comfort, they know make me ache.”
“But even so, there was something there, something recognizably real, and I couldn’t look away.”