Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it. - Jane Austen

Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.

What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering. For weeks, Marianne, I've had this pressing on me without being at liberty to speak of it to a single creature. It was forced on me by the very person whose prior claims ruined all my hope. I have endured her exultations again and again whilst knowing myself to be divided from Edward forever. Believe me, Marianne, had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you.

And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.