One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering. – Jane Austen
It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation. – Jane Austen
Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied. – Jane Austen
One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty. – Jane Austen
My parents were very permissive when it came to animals. As long as we earned the money to buy them and built whatever structure it was they were going to live in, we could have any kind of pet we wanted. They would have let us have a rhinoceros if we could have afforded it. – Maggie Stiefvater