I've just finished my first book on my new KINDLE. My mom got it for me as a Christmas gift. She knows how much I love reading-- it was such a wonderful gift. To start out, my first purchase was 'The Complete Works of Jane Austen," which, despite having already read four of the seven works included, seemed to be the perfect first collection for my KINDLE. The book is arranged with EMMA as the first book in the collection, so I went ahead and did a re-read of it--loving the feature that allows you to highlight quotes you like and save them for later. Later being now that I just finished it and was able to download those quotes onto my own computer! As the say in Japan
*She had been a friend and companion such as few possessed: intelligent, well-informed, useful, gentle, knowing all the ways of the family, interested in all its concerns, and peculiarly interested in herself, in every pleasure, every scheme of hers--one to whom she could speak every thought as it arose, and who had such an affection for her as could never find fault.
*It was a melancholy change; and Emma could not but sigh over it, and wish for impossible things, till her father awoke, and made it necessary to be cheerful.
*"And have you never known the pleasure and triumph of a lucky guess?-- I pity you.--I thought you cleverer--for, depend upon it a lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it. And as to my poor word `success,' which you quarrel with, I do not know that I am so entirely without any claim to it.
*she had a husband whose warm heart and sweet temper made him think every thing due to her in return for the great goodness of being in love with him;
*its being a great deal better to choose than to be chosen, to excite gratitude than to feel it.
*It was her own universal good-will and contented temper which worked such wonders. She loved every body, was interested in every body's happiness, quick sighted to every body's merits; thought herself a most fortunate creature, and surrounded with blessings in such an excellent mother, and so many good neighbours and friends, and a home that wanted for nothing. The simplicity and cheerfulness of her nature, her contented and grateful spirit, were a recommendation to every body, and a mine of felicity to herself.
*they must be coarse and unpolished, and very unfit to be the intimates of a girl who wanted only a little more knowledge and elegance to be quite perfect. She would notice her; she would improve her; she would detach her from her bad acquaintance, and introduce her into good society; she would form her opinions and her manners. It would be an interesting, and certainly a very kind undertaking; highly becoming her own situation in life, her leisure, and powers.
*I suppose there may be a hundred different ways of being in love.
*"That is the case with us all, papa. One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."
*"I have none of the usual inducements of women to marry. Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing! but I never have been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall. And, without love, I am sure I should be a fool to change such a situation as mine. Fortune I do not want; employment I do not want; consequence I do not want: I believe few married women are half as much mistress of their husband's house as I am of Hartfield; and never, never could I expect to be so truly beloved and important; so always first and always right in any man's eyes as I am in my father's."
*but a sanguine temper, though for ever expecting more good than occurs, does not always pay for its hopes by any proportionate depression. It soon flies over the present failure, and begins to hope again.
*But you have not an idea of what is requisite in situations directly opposite to your own.
*"Our amiable young man is a very weak young man, if this be the first occasion of his carrying through a resolution to do right against the will of others. It ought to have been a habit with him by this time, of following his duty, instead of consulting expediency. I can allow for the fears of the child, but not of the man. As he became rational, he ought to have roused himself and shaken off all that was unworthy in their authority. He
*We are both prejudiced; you against, I for.
*she saw in her the really accomplished young woman, which she wanted to be thought herself; and though the accusation had been eagerly refuted at the time, there were moments of self-examination in which her conscience could not quite acquit her.
*If ever there were people who, without having great wealth themselves, had every thing they could wish for, I am sure it is us.
*Harriet was one of those, who, having once begun, would be always in love.
*The ladies here probably exchanged looks which meant, "Men never know when things are dirty or not;" and the gentlemen perhaps thought each to himself, "Women will have their little nonsenses and needless cares."
*ball!--why did we wait for any thing?--why not seize the pleasure at once?--How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!--
*"Indeed, I am very sorry to be right in this instance. I would much rather have been merry than wise."
*she must be a little in love with him, in spite of every previous determination against it. "I certainly must," said she. "This sensation of listlessness, weariness, stupidity, this disinclination to sit down and employ myself, this feeling of every thing's being dull and insipid about the house!-- I must be in love;
*"There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart," said she afterwards to herself. "There is nothing to be compared to it. Warmth and tenderness of heart, with an affectionate, open manner, will beat all the clearness of head in the world, for attraction,
*I condition for nothing else; but without music, life would be a blank to me.'"
*`Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, `And waste its fragrance on the desert air.'
*a vast deal may be done by those who dare to act.
*flatterers?--Does my vain spirit ever tell me I am wrong?" "Not your vain spirit, but your serious spirit.--If one leads you wrong, I am sure the other tells you of it."
*have you actually found happiness in treasuring up these things?" "Yes, simpleton as I was!--but I am quite ashamed of it now, and wish I could forget as easily as I can burn them.
*Emma denied none of it aloud, and agreed to none of it in private.
*I can have no self-command without a motive.
*scarcely are her remains at rest in the family vault, than her husband is persuaded to act exactly opposite to what she would have required. What a blessing it is, when undue influence does not survive the grave!--
*How to understand the deceptions she had been thus practising on herself, and living under!--The blunders, the blindness of her own head and heart!--she
*Never had the exquisite sight, smell, sensation of nature, tranquil, warm, and brilliant after a storm, been more attractive to her. She longed for the serenity they might gradually introduce;
*through the rain; and had walked up directly after dinner, to see how this sweetest and best of all creatures, faultless in spite of all her faults, bore the discovery.
*I always deserve the best treatment, because I never put up with any other;
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