“Just be where you are. That is the only way to get where you're supposed to go.”

“Be where you are right now. Live your life. You are only hurting your chances by struggling so . . . .”

“But I do know that any place where there are six novels by the author of Pride and Prejudice must be a very special sort of heaven.”

“Only Complete and absolute surrender.”

“I cannot imagine a world in which one can read Jane Austen only once.”

“Most intelligent men and women like to go forth into the world and stalk their own prey, choose their own mirrors of dysfunction . . . .”

“I self-medicate with fat, carbohydrates, and Jane Austen, my number one drug of choice, my constant companion through every breakup, every disappointment, every crisis. Men might come and go, but Jane Austen was always there. In sickness and in health, for richer, for poorer, till death do us part.”