Quotes in Persuasion on love and relationships between Anne and Frederick

And and Captain Frederick Wentworth mat in the summer of 1806, while he was staying with his aunt. He fell in love with Anne immediately, and she reciprocated his feelings. Lady Russell, however, disapproved.

Years later, Frederick returns to the area, and although he has a difficult time forgiving Anne for rejecting him so many years before, he can't get over all of the things that attracted him to her in the first place. In the end, his generous nature allows him to forgive Sir Walter's and Lady Russell's interference as he becomes a part of the family.

He was, at that time, a remarkably fine young man, with a great deal of intelligence, spirit, and brilliancy; and Anne an extremely pretty girl, with gentleness, modesty, taste, and feeling. Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough, for he had nothing to do, and she had hardly anybody to love; but the encounter of such lavish recommendations could not fail. They were gradually acquainted, and when acquainted, rapidly and deeply in love. It would be difficult to say which had seen highest perfection in the other, or which had been the happiest: she, in receiving his declarations and proposals, or he in having them accepted.

She felt a great deal of good-will towards him. In spite of the mischief of his attentions, she owed him gratitude and regard, perhaps compassion. She could not help thinking much of the extraordinary circumstances attending their acquaintance, of the right which he seemed to have to interest her, by everything in situation, by his own sentiments, by his early prepossession. It was altogether very extraordinary; flattering, but painful. There was much to regret. How she might have felt had there been no Captain Wentworth in the case, was not worth enquiry; for there was a Captain Wentworth; and be the conclusion of the present suspense good or bad, her affection would be his for ever. Their union, she believed, could not divide her more from other men, than their final separation.