“I think... if it is true that there are as many
minds as there are heads, then there are as
many kinds of love as there are hearts.”
“Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”
“He stepped down, trying not to look long at
her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like
the sun, even without looking.”
“Is it really possible to tell someone else what one
feels?”
“I always loved you, and if one loves anyone,
one loves the whole person, just as they are
and not as one would like them to be." -Dolly
“But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason,
because it is unreasonable.”
“He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his
soul.”
“I'm like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he's cold, and his
clothes are torn, and he's ashamed, but he's not unhappy.”
“What am I coming for?" he repeated, looking straight into her eyes. "You know that
I have come to be where you are," he said; "I can't help it.”
“He could not be mistaken. There were no other eyes like those in the
world. There was only one creature in the world who could concentrate for
him all the brightness and meaning of life. It was she. It was Kitty.”
“He looked at her as a man looks at a faded flower he has gathered, with difficulty
recognizing in it the beauty for which he picked and ruined it. And in spite of this
he felt that then, when his love was stronger, he could, if he had greatly wished it,
have torn that love out of his heart; but now when as at that moment it seemed to
him he felt no love for her, he knew that what bound him to her could not be
broken.”
“There it is!' he thought with rapture. 'When I was already in despair, and
when it seemed there would be no end- there it is! She loves me. She's
confessed it.”