“I wished I had been able to make her look that way, but it is the destiny of a lover to watch unhappiness hardening like a cast around his mistress.”
“...it is the destiny of a lover to watch unhappiness hardening like a cast around his mistress.”
“The way he’s watching me makes me feel needed like no one’s ever been able to make me feel. In a way, he makes me feel necessary. Like my existence alone is necessary for his survival.”
“Look upon me, Mistress. Watch as I wither!”
“Stephen had spared no expense in making himself more unhappy, his own position as a rejected lover clearer.”
“But what was making her unhappy? Where was the extraordinary catastrophe that had wrecked her life?She raised her head and looked around, as though trying to find the cause of her suffering.”