“All the Jane Austen in the library cannot wash the Queens from this little hand.”
“Jane Austen's books, too, are absent from this library. Just that one omission alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.”
“Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.”
“Do not despair, little Alice. Only persist, and thou shalt see, Jane Austen's all in all to thee.”
“I cannot imagine a world in which one can read Jane Austen only once.”
“In other words, all I want to be is the Jane Austen of south Alabama”