Date: 1782

"She determined, as much as was in her power, in quitting her desultory dwellings, to empty her mind of the transactions which had passed in them, and upon entering a house where she was permanently to reside, to make the expulsion of her past sorrows, the basis upon which to establish her future...

— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)

Date: 1782

"A plan by which so great a revolution was to be wrought in her mind, was not to be effected by any sudden effort of magnanimity, but by a regular and even tenour of courage mingled with prudence."

— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)

Date: 1782

"The conversation, therefore, ended with new discontent to himself, and with an impression upon the mind of Cecilia, that though he was zealous and friendly, he was somewhat too worldly and suspicious."

— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)

Date: 1782

"Passion not merely banished his justice, but clouded his reason, and I soon left the room, that at least I might not hear the aspersions he forbid me to answer."

— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)

Date: 1782

"The torture he had suffered in believing, though only for a few moments, that the terror he had given to Cecilia had affected her intellects, made even a deeper impression upon his imagination, than the scene of fury and death, which had occasioned that terror."

— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)

Date: 1782

"She told her not what had passed; that, she knew, would be fruitless affiction to her: but she was soothed by her gentleness, and her conversation was some security from the dangerous rambling of her ideas."

— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)

Date: 1782

"She hastily obeyed the summons; the constant image of her own mind, Delvile, being already present to her, and a thousand wild conjectures upon what had brought him back, rapidly occurring to her."

— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)

Date: 1782

"I was bewitched, I was infatuated! common sense was estranged by the seduction of a chimera; my understanding was in a ferment from the ebullition of my imagination!"

— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)

Date: 1782

"Heavens! what a life of struggle between the head and the heart! how cruel, how unnatural a war between the intellects and the feelings!"

— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)

Date: 1782

"These thoughts, which confusedly, yet forcibly, rushed upon her mind, brought with them at once an excuse for his conduct, and an alarm for his danger."

— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)