“Society can only hurt if you care for its opinion”

“It is painful to see someone suffering what you must be suffering- watching someone you love be so cruelly hurt.”

“I love you more than I can express, or can ever hope to express”

“The glitter of the great world, you know, is only so much froth and spume: you may look in vain for happiness there.”

“You can greet even the dullest acquaintance with pleasure, if you have forgotten their dreary story.”

“Matthew gave her such a hurt, wistful, nobly forbearing, and absolutely infuriating look that if Caroline had been a rich aunt she would have cut him out of her will on the spot.”

“She simply cannot let go of love- and who can blame that? Is it not the hardest thing in the world to relinquish, once you have it?”