Every book I read in 2024: Untainted by Lilian T. James
"You could never be invisible, little star. You burn too bright. Sulian may seek to hide you away, to steal your future and crush your spirit, but even he could not hope to smother the intensity of your fire. You are more than the pretty trophy he wants you to be."
i do so wonder, miss woodhouse, that you should not be going to be married, so charming as you are. i have none of the usual inducements of women to marry. fortune i do not want - employment i do not want - consequence i do not want. i believe few married women are half as much mistress of their husband's house as i am of hartfield. anya taylor joy as emma woodhouse in emma. (2020) dir. autumn de wilde