If a book is well written, I always find it too short.

If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.

To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect

But to appear happy when I am so miserable — Oh! who can require it?

Eleanor went to her room "where she was free to think and be wretched.

From a night of more sleep than she had expected, Marianne awoke the next morning to the same consciousness of misery in which she had closed her eyes.

The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!

I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be...yours.

I can feel no sentiment of approbation inferior to love.

…told herself likewise not to hope. But it was too late. Hope had already entered…

And Marianne, who had the knack of finding her way in every house to the library, however it might be avoided by the family in general, soon procured herself a book.

Whatever it is that you think you have discovered. You must forget it.

I'm thankful for my songs being at the top of the charts but I am human - I think people still have to remember that.

she acquired the certainty of the expansion of time by depth of emotion, range and infinite multiplicity of experience.

Man is the nobler growth our realms supply, And souls are ripened in our northern sky.

We are free to yield to truth.

in nonsense is strength

A mere collector of supposed facts is as useful as a collector of matchboxes.

A memoir should have some uplifting quality, inspiring or illuminating, and that's what separates a life story that can influence other people.

All power is from within and therefore under our control

We might remember ... not to fear death; it is the only way to be cleansed.