Quotes from book

Austenland

“Figure out what is real for you. No use leaning on someone else's story all your life.”

“Miss Hayes, have you stopped to consider that you might have this all backward? That in fact you are my fantasy?”

“It's not something you tell your single best friend. It'd be like rubbing your nose in the poop of my happiness.”

“… fantasy is not practice for what is real—fantasy is the opiate of women.”

“He had a dashing smile. It nearly dashed right off his face.”

“Why was the judgement of the disapproving so valuable? Who said that their good opinions tended to be any more rational than those of generally pleasant people?”

“For Colin Firth:
You're a really great guy, but I'm married, so I think we should just be friends.”

“Miss Erstwhile: “It is such a relief, Mr. Nobley, to already know that you find this exercise vulgar and your partner unworthy. It saves us the idle chitchat.”
Mr. Nobley: “And yet you chat away.”

“If you were a woman, all I'd have to say is 'Colin Firth in a wet shirt' and you'd say 'Ah.”

“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a thirty-something woman in possession of a satisfying career and fabulous hairdo must be in want of very little”

“He nodded. "And if I don't make you feel like the most beautiful woman in the world every day of your life, then I don't deserve to be near you.”