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Emma Woodhouse, Emma (1996)

‘“Esteem him?” “Like him?” Use those insipid words again and I shall leave the room this instant.’

Jena Malone and Carey Mulligan in Pride & Prejudice (2005) directed by Joe Wright

Carey Mulligan in Northanger Abbey, 2007

Pride and Prejudice (2005)

Sense and Sensibility + Green & White

Mr. Darcy? I could more easily forgive his vanity had he not wounded mine. But no matter. I doubt we shall ever speak again. 

Persuasion (2007)

"All these things I am willing to put aside and ask you to end my agony." - Pride and Prejudice (2005)

MOTHER MEME + BOOK MOTHER | Mrs. Bennet

Jane Austen, Mansfield Park (via bibliophilebunny)

"My dearest Emma, for that is what you always have been and you always will be, my most beloved Emma. I cannot make speeches. If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more, but you know what I am. I have lectured you and scolded you and you have born it as no other woman would have."

James McAvoy as Tom Lefroy

At ten, she was moreover noisy and wild, hated confinement and cleanliness and loved nothing so well in the world as rolling down the green slope at the back of the house. At fifteen, appearances were mending; she began to curl her hair and long for balls; her complexion improved, her features were softened by plumpness and colour, her eyes gained more animation, and her figure more consequence. Her love of dirt gave away to inclination for finery, and she grew clean as she grew smart. To look almost pretty, is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain the first fifteen years of her life, than a beauty from her cradle can ever imagine