“Such a letter was not to be soon recovered from. . . . Every moment rather brought fresh agitation. It was an overpowering happiness.”
“…Elizabeth, agitated and confused, rather knew that she was happy, than felt herself to be so…”
“Every young lady may feel for my heroine in this critical moment, for every young lady has at some time or other known the same agitation.”
“You can never recover from losing a person you love, but you can find a way to let it be part of your life rather than letting it take over every part of you”
“A happy marriage- a love match- is something overwhelming, and overpowering.”
“All the overpowering blinding, bewildering, first effects of strong surprise were over with her. Still, however, she had enough to feel! It was agitation, pain, pleasure, a something between delight and misery.”