Then you're a bigger fool than I thought. Since when has any man ever been worthy of the woman he loved? It's only by God's grace that they love us in spite of ourselves.

You care enough to play hard to get.

His lips nuzzled her ear. “Whether you go or stay, I will love you until I die,” he whispered.

Love does nothing but make you weak! It turns you into an object of pity and derision-a mewling pathetic creature no more fit to live than a worm squirming on the pavement after a hard summer rain.

Then you're a bigger fool than I thought. Since when has any man ever been worthy of the woman he loved? It's only by God's grace that they love us in spite of ourselves.

To me you are stardust sprinkled across a night sky, forever in my dreams, but out of my reach.

A lady has every right to defend herself against unsought advances. And creatures of the night.