...she refused to leave anything to someone else that she could do better herself.

You can't change the desert. You can only take the fastest course through it. Wishing it's an oasis won't make it so.

My love is unique an none can rival her. Just by passing, she has already stolen away my heart.

Why does life carry some people on the crest of the wave while others drown beneath the water?

But that's how the heart is. Stubborn and foolish.

Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them. —SUZANNE NECKER, WIFE OF JACQUES NECKER, MINISTER OF FINANCE

I don't think unhappiness is fated.