Dalam mini seri Sanditon (2019) ada beberapa pasangan yang percakapannya bisa menjadi satu ide kutipan atau quotes tentang cinta. Yang jelas, mereka menunjukkan bahwa cinta tidak selalu indah, ada juga penolakan dan pertengkaran. Bahkan cinta tak selalu harus bersatu, spoiler nih.
Semua kutipan dalam Bahasa Inggris, ya, supaya asli konteksnya dan sekalian belajar Bahasa Inggris. Apalagi penulisnya Jane Austen, dengan tatanan bahasa yang yahud pula! Silakan dicoba pada pasangan Anda kalau cocok!
1. Konteks: Esther tidak suka dengan Babington yang mengejar-ngejarnya.
Esther Denham: Babington, why do you persist when you are treated with so little civility?
Lord Babington: Perhaps, it's the fascination of what's difficult. All I know, the more I see you and the more nonchalantly you reject my advances, the more intense my desire for you grows.
2. Konteks: Sidney sebelumnya tidak suka dengan perilaku Charlotte, namun akhirnya melayangkan pujian. Iya, memang aneh, extraordinary.
Sidney Parker: Miss Heywood, I wonder if I might persume to ask a favour?
Charlotte Heywood: ... of me?
Sidney: Extraordinary as it might sound, I do believe you're better positioned than almost everyone.
3. Konteks: Sidney menerima perilaku Charlotte.
Charlotte Heywood: I thought you considered me to be a bad influence.
Sidney Parker: Well, is it conceivable that we've had each other wrong?
4. Konteks: Sedang piknik di hamparan bunga ungu yang dipilih Otis.
Georgiana Lambe: I cannot imagine a lovelier spot.
Otis Molyneux: They're not as lovely without you in it.
5. Konteks: Young menemani Charlotte berjalan-jalan di pantai.
Charlotte Heywood: Forgive me, Mr Stringer, I've been your own poor company.
Young Stringer: On the contrary, Miss. After the day I had, a walking companiable silence was just what I needed.
6. Konteks: Masih Young menemani Charlotte berjalan-jalan di pantai.
Young Stringer: I wouldn't wish for you to change. Not for the world.
Charlotte Heywood: Thank you, Mr Stringer, let's hope all men would be like you.
7. Konteks: Charlotte melihat ada banyak cewek mengagumi Young.
Charlotte Heywood: You seem to have gathered several admirers already.
Young Stringer: I hope you're among them.
Charlotte Heywood: Ask me again, once I've seen you play.
8. Konteks: Esther masih tidak suka dengan Babington yang mengejar-ngejarnya.
Esther Denham: I'm starting to find you a slightly better company.
Lord Babington: I've never met anyone else who can give a compliment in such a way as it might also an insult.