# Persuasion Tags: #literature ## Metadata * Author: [Jane Austen](https://www.amazon.comundefined) * ASIN: B075M7VBK7 * ISBN: B093K83T3Z * Reference: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B075M7VBK7 * [Kindle link](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B075M7VBK7) ## Highlights It is the worst evil of too yielding and indecisive a character, that no influence over it can be depended on. You are never sure of a good impression being durable; everybody may sway it. Let those who would be happy be firm. — location: [1175](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B075M7VBK7&location=1175) ^ref-17338 --- “The last hours were certainly very painful,” replied Anne; “but when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure. One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering, which was by no means the case at Lyme. — location: [2474](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B075M7VBK7&location=2474) ^ref-49331 --- “No!” he replied impressively, “there is nothing worth my staying for;” and he was gone directly. Jealousy of Mr. Elliot! It was the only intelligible motive. Captain Wentworth jealous of her affection! Could she have believed it a week ago; three hours ago! For a moment the gratification was exquisite. But, alas! there were very different thoughts to succeed. How was such jealousy to be quieted? How was the truth to reach him? How, in all the peculiar disadvantages of their respective situations, would he ever learn of her real sentiments? It was misery to think of Mr. Elliot’s attentions. Their evil was incalculable. — location: [2572](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B075M7VBK7&location=2572) ^ref-21139 --- All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one; you need not covet it), is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.” — location: [3202](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B075M7VBK7&location=3202) ^ref-12536 --- “I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach. You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. — location: [3224](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B075M7VBK7&location=3224) ^ref-7266 --- There they exchanged again those feelings and those promises which had once before seemed to secure everything, but which had been followed by so many, many years of division and estrangement. There they returned again into the past, more exquisitely happy, perhaps, in their re-union, than when it had been first projected; more tender, more tried, more fixed in a knowledge of each other’s character, truth, and attachment; more equal to act, more justified in acting. — location: [3274](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B075M7VBK7&location=3274) ^ref-25943 --- “I must endeavour to subdue my mind to my fortune. I must learn to brook being happier than I deserve.” — location: [3372](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B075M7VBK7&location=3372) ^ref-38101 ---