“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”

“Love on the decline is hard to tell from love on the rise.” [From 'The Lady from Lucknow']”

“Love, sought as an escape from the burden of the self, turns rapidly into a captivity.”

“I had jumped off the edge, and then, at the very last moment, something reached out and caught me in midair. That something is what I define as love. It is the one thing that can stop a man from falling, powerful enough to negate the laws of gravity.”

“She turned quickly to face him, and with one part of his mind he thought, They call it falling in love, admiring as always the wisdom of the language. Not stumbling in love, not walking, striding, jumping, bouncing, crawling in love. You fall in love, straight forward like a chopped tree, straight down like a rock from a cliff: gravity, earth, concussion.”

“I loved you from that moment on,” I say.“I loved you from that moment on,” you agree.”