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

I love the ground under his feet, and the air over his head, and everything he touches and every word he says. I love all his looks, and all his actions and him entirely and all together.

I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me. People feel with their hearts, Ellen, and since he has destroyed mine, I have not power to feel for him.

The clock strikes off the hollow half-hours of all the life that is left to you, one by one.

Are you acquainted with the mood of mind in which, if you were seated alone, and the cat licking its kitten on the rug before you, you would watch the operation so intently that puss's neglect of one ear would put you seriously out of temper?

I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me.

Earth reserves no blessing For the unblessed of Heaven!