“A natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.”

“She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.”

“Things don't ever stay the same. Natural beginnings come to natural or unnatural ends.”

“How eloquent could Anne Elliot have been, - how eloquent, at least, were her wishes on the side of early warm attachment, and a cheerful confidence in futurity, against that over-anxious caution which seems to insult exertion and distrust Providence! - She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older - the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.”

“Anything unnatural was not naturally believed. Faith, in essence, was unnatural.”

“Every beginning, after all, is nothing but a sequel, and the book of events is always open in the middle.”