“he is both the source of my happiness and the one i want to share it with.”

“It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire aknowledge of other people's business.”

“Alex paused. 'I want you to be happy and I want you to be safe,' he said finally.'I'm both those things with you.”

“I want a marriage of companions—one of shared lives and shared poems,' he murmured. 'If we were husband and wife, we would collect books, read, and drink tea together. As I told you before, I'd want you for what's in here.'Again he pointed to my heart, but I felt it in a place far lower in my body.”

“He values my understanding and talents more highly than my heart, but I am proud of the latter only. It is the sole source of everything of our strength, happiness, and misery. All the knowledge I possess every one else can acquire, but my heart is exclusively my own.”

“The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.”