You must really begin to harden yourself to the idea of being worth looking at.

You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight and a half years ago. Dare not say that a man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.

I trust that absolutes have gradations.

A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world.

What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!

I understand Crawford paid you a visit?" "Yes." "And was he attentive?" "Yes, very." "And has your heart changed towards him?" "Yes. Several times. I have - I find that I - I find that-" "Shh. Surely you and I are beyond speaking when words are clearly not enough.... I missed you." "And I you.