amandaonwriting:

The Austenite Prayer

lizziedarcys:

thirty days of jane austen; → favourite film adaptation
↳ persuasion (2007)

Wentworth: I imagined myself indifferent to her but I was only angry and resentful. Too late… too late I began to understand myself and her. Never have I met your equal in good sense or sweetness of character. She’s perfection itself. I’d never loved any but her.
Harville: We are talking now of Anne Elliot?
Wentworth: Of course! Who else?

history meme ∙ (2/6) women ∙ jane austen

Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature. Her realism and biting social commentary have gained her historical importance among scholars and critics.(+more)

I tried to forget you. I thought I had.

royalrory:

Anne Elliot + Faceless

alisonmoffitt:

She was looking remarkably well; her very regular, very pretty features, having the bloom and freshness of youth restored by the fine wind which had been blowing on her complexion, and by the animations of eye which it had also produced.

“Now they were as strangers; nay worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted.” 

Jane Austen — Persuasion | part 1/?

muser1901:

Miss Elliot,
I can bear this no longer. You pierced my soul.

thatwetshirt:

favourite films: Persuasion (2009)

“I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.” 

Persuasion [1995] | part 2/?

fairestcharming:

“But I hate to hear you talking so like a fine gentleman, and as if women were all fine ladies, instead of rational creatures.  We none of us expect to be in smooth water all our days.”
- Jane Austen, Persuasion