• You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever.

    Jane Austen: You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever.
    Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.1372, Wordsworth Editions