Christina Morland

The Year in Between explores the untold year in the last chapter of Sense and Sensibility. Marianne Dashwood was "born to an extraordinary fate...to discover the falsehood of her own opinions, and to counteract, by her conduct, her most favorite maxims". After Willoughby's betrayal, how did Marianne learn to see Colonel Brandon--and herself--in a new light? And how did Elinor Dashwood and Edward Ferrars fare during their first year of marriage?

The Year in Between

Elena M.

I once believed I could only ever be the heroine of my own story. And yet—what if I am the character who exists only to warn others about the dangers of a selfish and foolish love?

“Is there a hierarchy of hurt?” he asked. “Perhaps how one’s heart has been damaged matters less than the fact that it has been damaged at all.”

There is not much practical difference between being oblivious to one’s failings and being consumed by the thought of them. In either case, you turn yourself into a prisoner of your own mind.

I think that is the very best kind of love—that which we receive in spite of our flaws.

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