“Well, sir, embrace me once, as you would embrace your daughter, and I swear to you that that kiss, the only chaste kiss I have ever had, will make me strong against my love, and that within a week your son will be once more at your side, perhaps unhappy for a time, but cured forever.”
“You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve.”
“Fewer candles flickered. Fewer words were spoken. Fewer breaths were taken.”
“She was full of flaws which with time would evolve into full-blown personality defects.”
“Treat everyone in the same way you would like to be treated.”