Date: 1782

"Yet disdain not to reflect that every instant will seem endless, while Cecilia must appear to me unjust, or wound my very soul by the recollection of her in sorrow."

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

Date: 1782

"[A]cquainted ere you meet that you were to meet him no more, your heart would be all softness and grief, and at the very moment when tenderness should be banished from your intercourse, it would bear down all opposition of judgment, spirit, and dignity: you would hang upon every word, because ev...

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

Date: 1782

"Had they mingled in the world, fed high their fancy with hope, and looked forward with expectation of enjoyment; had they been courted by the great, and offered with profusion adulation for their abilities, yet, even when starving, been offered nothing else!"

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

Date: 1782

"And is the dagger you have transfixed in my heart sunk deep enough to appease you?"

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

Date: 1782

"My brain is on fire!"

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

Date: 1782

"He could not conceal from me that the seat of his disorder was his mind; and I could not know that, without readily conjecturing the cause, when I saw who was his father's guest, and when I knew what was his father's character."

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

Date: 1782

"Cecilia's eyes glistened at this speech; 'Yes,' said she, 'he long since said 'tis suspence, 'tis hope, that make the misery of life,---for there the Passions have all power, and Reason has none.'"

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

Date: 1782

"He read in her countenance the dejection of disappointment, which impressed upon his heart the vivacity of hope."

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

Date: 1782

"Do not, then, wish me ill, ill as I have seemed to merit of you, for my own heart is almost broken by the tyranny I have been compelled to practice upon yours."

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

Date: 1782

"A weight was removed from his mind which had nearly borne down even his remotest hopes."

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