“Tonight, however, all I can think of is the juxtaposition of destiny and free will, and whether it makes no difference what I do, or all the difference in the world.”

“They say the truth will set you free, but what nobody tells you is that sometimes the truth will also make you miserable.”

“You know, it is a little known fact that thinking is entirely overrated. The world would be a much better place if we all did a lot less of it”

“What couldn't I do now, having already committed such a breach of fashion logic and lived to tell the tale? Why couldn't I pretend to be a woman with a solid core of self-worth, who likes herself no matter what the nearest handsome man or evil mother thinks of her?”

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

“...and I decide to stop inwardly composing the feminist world court's prosecutorial summation to the jury.”

“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.”