“...it is the destiny of a lover to watch unhappiness hardening like a cast around his mistress.”
“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.”
“No lover ever studied every whim of his mistress as I did those of President Roosevelt.”
“Every artist is an unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story.”
“Does love always form, like a pearl, around the hardened bits of life?”
“Stephen had spared no expense in making himself more unhappy, his own position as a rejected lover clearer.”