“Love I must forego. I am not a man with an income.”
“Am I to admire a man who injures me in an awkward and mistaken attempt to protect me, and to despise a man who to earn a good income performs for me some great and lasting service?”
“You said I am a good man," he said. "But I am not that good a man. And I am--I am catastrophically in love with you.”
“I'm not a man easily moved to displays of emotion, but tonight I am weak, I am vulnerable. It must be from being inside her, so close to her, breathing in her pain, and love, and light, and blossoming vulnerable beauty”
“Am I pretty? I must be, I thought, for all girls in love are pretty.”
“I love and am loved by a better man than he.”