I've always had a weakness for lost causes once they're really lost.

With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.

So it was true! A pain slashed at her heart as savagely as a wild animal's fangs.

Well, my dear, take heart. Some day, I will kiss you and you will like it. But not now, so I beg you not to be too impatient.

You are a child if you thought I didn’t know, for all your smothering yourself under that hot lap robe. Of course, I knew. Why else do you think I’ve been—” He stopped suddenly and a silence fell between them. He picked up the reins and clucked to the horse.

They were always like two people talking to each other in different languages. But she loved him so much, when he withdrew as he had now done, it was like the warm sun going down and leaving her in chilly twilight dews.

[T]he merciful adjustment which nature makes when what cannot be cured must be endured.