Quotes from book
Austenland

Name: Austenland
Author: Shannon Hale

For the film based on the novel, see Austenland Austenland is a novel by Shannon Hale, published on May 9, 2007 by Bloomsbury. It is first in her Austenland series. A film based on the novel was released in 2013.

“I need to admit up front that I don't know how to have a fling. I'm not good at playing around and then saying good-bye. I'm throwing myself at your feet because I'm hoping for a shot at forever." Henry Jenkins/Mr. Nobley”

Shannon Hale book Austenland

Source: Austenland

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

Shannon Hale book Austenland

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

Shannon Hale book Austenland

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

Shannon Hale book Austenland

Source: Austenland

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

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

Shannon Hale book Austenland

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“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?”

Shannon Hale book Austenland

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

Shannon Hale book Austenland

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“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.”

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

Shannon Hale book Austenland

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“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”

Shannon Hale book Austenland

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“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.”

Shannon Hale book Austenland

Source: Austenland

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