“I do not wish you other than you are, Tessa. You are what you are, and I love you.”
“I love you, Tessa, and I have loved you, almost since the moment I met you.”
“I wish you health, and more than wealth, I wish you love”
“Then, if you love him," he said quietly, "please, Tessa, don't tell him what I just told you. Don't tell him that I love you.”
“I wish there was a word more than ‘love’ itself to convey what I feel for you.”
“I love you,' Marius whispered suddenly, passionately as a mortal man might. 'I have always loved you. I wish that I could believe in anything other than love at this moment; but I can’t.”