mr. palmer from sense and sensibility is one of my fave professional complainers in all of fiction. "sir john is as stupid as the weather" he just shows up. says shit like this. and then goes back to his newspaper without fail for the entirety of his appearance in the novel. guys who were very very obviously played by hugh laurie in the 90s adaptation
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“If a book is well written, I always find it too short.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
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Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.
Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen
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rereading sense and sensibility and it's still so crazy to me how universal and true a 17 yr old going through a breakup is. every 17 yr old in the whole world has been here:
Marianne would have thought herself very inexcusable had she been able to sleep at all the first night after parting from Willoughby. She would have been ashamed to look her family in the face the next morning, had she not risen from her bed in more need of repose than when she lay down in it.
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Marianne when Willoughby gave her a horse:
Elinor knowing they had nowhere to put this fucking horse and no staff to care for it:
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jane austen really said "There was a boy called Dick Musgrove, and he totally deserved it."
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