They forgot everything the minute they were together again.

I'm wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there; not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart; but really with it, and in it.

Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.

It is strange people should be so greedy, when they are alone in the world.

He shall never know how I love him: and that, not because he's handsome, Nelly, but because he is more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous

Hereafter she is only my sister in name; not because I disown her, but because she has disowned me.