Sublime

“This may sound crazy,” he would say, “but I still want her. I can’t help it. I’ve never thought about killing anyone, but in that courtroom I could have killed her. She knew all along what she was doing, I never would have believed it.”

Epoux !… Ce titre serait donc seulement pour ce monde… Et pour ce monde aussi je commets un péché en l'aimant, en désirant de t'arracher, si je pouvais, de ses bras dans les miens ! Péché ! soit. Eh bien, je m'en punis. Je l'ai savouré, ce péché, dans toutes ses délices célestes ; j'ai aspiré le baume de la vie et versé la force dans mon cœur.

nothing grieves more deeply or pathetically than one half of a great love that isn’t meant to be.

Elle était l’amoureuse de tous les romans, l’héroïne de tous les drames, le vague elle de tous les volumes de vers.

Sa présence, sa destinée, l'intérêt qu'elle prend à mon sort, expriment encore les dernières larmes de mon cerveau calciné.

I had mistaken the heroism of friendship for the phrenzy of love.

‘She has obstinacy and pride enough to serve instead of love, now she has married him,’ said Will to himself.

there is a gentleman who may fall in love with you, seeing you almost every day.’ A certain change in Mary’s face was chiefly determined by the resolve not to show any change. ‘Does that always make people fall in love?’ she answered, carelessly; ‘it seems to me quite as often a reason for detesting each other.’ ‘Not when they are interesting and a