“There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.”
From "Emma"
For when you’re stuck leading the group project and have to do all the work because none of your classmates did what you asked them to do.
“There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.”
From "Emma"
For when you go home over break and have a room all to yourself and a shower you know is foot fungus free.
“If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.”
From "Emma"
For when you’re sitting in Brit lit, and your crush surprise attacks you with a question about "Beowulf," and you forget what year it is.
“Till this moment I never knew myself.”
From "Pride and Prejudice"
For when you kill a test you were sure you failed and your whole life feels brand new.
“For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?”
From "Pride and Prejudice"
For when you and your roommate talk mad trash about your hallmates who watch "Little Einsteins" on full blast at 3 a.m.
“You find great enjoyment in occasionally professing opinions which in fact are not your own.”
From "Pride and Prejudice"
For when you play devil’s advocate in a class discussion and you’re in too deep to back out.
“The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.”
From "Sense and Sensibility"
For when the annoying guy you talked to once during orientation slides up next to you while you’re studying in the Caf.
“I will not torment myself any longer by remaining among friends whose society it is impossible to enjoy.”
For when summer break can’t come fast enough because your friends are starting to get on your nerves.
“How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!”
From "Persuasion"
For when you convince yourself that a night in with Netflix and popcorn is better than studying for an exam.
“One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.”
From "Persuasion"
For when you have major, traumatic flashbacks every time you pass the chemistry lab.
“It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.”
From "Persuasion"
For when you’re crossing your fingers for that second puberty.
“From politics, it was an easy step to silence.”
From "Northanger Abbey"
For when you accidentally bring up that one of your friends likes Bernie in front of a friend who is voting for Trump.
“Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it.”
For when your outfit is on point, and you don’t need anyone to tell you that.
“Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.”
From "Mansfield Park"
For when you’re late to Prob and Stats for the fifth time in a row, and your professor makes way too much meaningful eye contact with you.
“A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.”
From "Mansfield Park"
For when you’re reconsidering that arts degree.
