Prom & Prejudice

It's very easy to get a boy to leave the room. It's much harder to get him to leave your thoughts.

Sometimes friends have to suffer for their friends' happiness.

Georgie took out her phone. 'I want to take a picture of you two.' She held up her phone and motioned for us to get together. Darcy and I lined up against the railing. 'No, I need you closer together to get you both in the photo,' she instructed. I had taken countless pictures on the waterfront and I knew that if you were getting the skyline in the background, you didn't need to be that close. Darcy put his arm around my shoulder and we leaned in. I slipped my arm around his waist and I noticed how easily I fit into the little nook on his side. 'Oh, hold on, I'm having problems.' Georgie played with her phone for a few moments while we just stood there in our posed embrace. 'Georgie...' She looked up at her brother and blushed. 'Um, I think it works now.

It was bad enough to see friendship and love in terms of politics. But seeing it in terms of business was even worse.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single girl of high standing at Longbourn Academy must be in want of a prom date.

I know, but it's just one night and I really think it's silly to spend thousands of dollars on a dress you only wear once.

Talking to them was like being placed into conversational purgatory, with no hope of being released without significant damage to one's self-esteem.

If you don't have any feelings for Will Darcy, why are you blushing and fixing your hair?

Oh, Darcy!' Fitz grabbed Darcy by the collar. 'You have such a way with the ladies.

What a clear, poweful emotion - thankfulness. It hadn't occurred to me in a long time that I could be someone that another person would be thankful for. Not for anything I'd done or said, but simply for who I was, and who I had the potential to be.

Elizabeth Bennet, will you do me the great honor of not going to prom with me?

Nobody wants to give up a weekend-long excuse to dress up and attempt to outshine one another.

... that was what should truly matter in this world. What you have to offer people, not what you can buy.

It was flawless. It was, in fact, so flawless that it didn't call attention to its own flawlessness. It was perfect.

So Elizabeth, dare we take the dance floor again in hopes of repeating that splendid performance given by Lydia?

I had absolutely no idea that all this time he'd been flirting with me.

—Y... —Jane me incitó. —¿Y? —le respondí—. Y, Will Darcy no es la encarnación del mal. Yo, sin embargo, al parecer soy un pésimo juez de carácter. Destruyo a casi todo el mundo cerca de mí.

You wouldn't know how to punch the right buttons on a girl if we came with manuals.