Natalie

“I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness. [...] Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other. If I could persuade myself that my manners were perfectly easy and graceful, I should not be shy.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility