It is so easy for a woman to become what the man she loves believes her to be!
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The House of Mirth
by
Edith Wharton
"Do you think I can stay to become nothing to you? Do you think I am an automaton?—a machine without feelings? And can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched from my lips, and my drop of living water dashed from my cup? Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong!—I have as much soul as you,—and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you. I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh;—it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God's feet, equal,—as we are!"
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Jane Eyre
by
Charlotte Bronte
"I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death, and flung it back to me."
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Wuthering Heights
by
Emily Bronte
Love can excuse anything except meanness; but meanness kills love, cripples even natural affection; without esteem true love cannot exist.
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Shirley
by
Charlotte Bronte
Love is real—the most real, the most lasting, the sweetest and yet the bitterest thing we know.
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Shirley
by
Charlotte Bronte
A man desires to win a virgin heart, and is happy to know,—or at least to believe,—that he has won it. With a woman every former rival is an added victim to the wheels of the triumphant chariot in which she is sitting.
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Phineas Finn
by
Anthony Trollope
"Must we be strangers, you and I, because there was a time in which we were almost more than friends?"
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Phineas Finn
by
Anthony Trollope
I could not unlove him now, merely because I found that he had ceased to notice me.
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Jane Eyre
by
Charlotte Bronte
Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife's hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.
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Phineas Redux
by
Anthony Trollope
Love is poison. A sweet poison, yes, but it will kill you all the same.
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A Clash of Kings
by
George R. R. Martin