“Looking at him now-even if she hadn’t been in love with him, that part of her that was her mother’s daugher, that loved every beautiful thing for its beauty alone, would still have wanted him.”

“Do I love you because you’re beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you?”

“My heart only ever had one thought, one want. One need. Despite all, in spite of all…All my heart has ever wanted is you.”

“Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.”

“Lovers alone wear sunlight.”

“Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.”

“What she had realized was that love was that moment when your heart was about to burst.”