"There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison"

"Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection."

"If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy."

"In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you."

"A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment."

"I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun."