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“I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach. You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight years and a half ago. Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant. You alone have brought me to Bath. For you alone, I think and plan. Have you not seen this? Can you fail to have understood my wishes? I had not waited even these ten days, could I have read your feelings, as I think you must have penetrated mine. I can hardly write. I am every instant hearing something which overpowers me. You sink your voice, but I can distinguish the tones of that voice when they would be lost on others. Too good, too excellent creature! You do us justice, indeed. You do believe that there is true attachment and constancy among men. Believe it to be most fervent, most undeviating, in F. W.

I must go, uncertain of my fate; but I shall return hither, or follow your party, as soon as possible. A word, a look, will be enough to decide whether I enter your father's house this evening or never.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

“He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“And I pray one prayer--I repeat it till my tongue stiffens--Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living! You said I killed you--haunt me, then!...Be with me always--take any form--drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“Each time you happen to me all over again.”
― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

“Life is suffering. It is hard. The world is cursed. But still, you find reasons to keep living.”
― Hayao Miyazaki

“Love me as I am, sweet one, for I shall never be better.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters

“Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“I know your heart, and you mine, right Naruto?”
― Masashi Kishimoto, NARUTO -ナルト- 72

“I was quiet, but I was not blind.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“I drag myself out of nightmares each morning and find there's no relief in waking.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“If no one cares for you at all, do you even really exist?”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

“I'll bear the burden of your hatred... and we'll die together!”
― Masashi Kishimoto, NARUTO -ナルト- 52 巻ノ五十二

“In the face of pain there are no heroes.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“I cannot make speeches, Emma...If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me. I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“The Heart wants what it wants - or else it does not care”
― Emily Dickinson

“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“They've promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.”
― Oscar Wilde

“As long as I can dream, I will dream of you.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Glass

“To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“He's always, always in my mind — not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself — but as my own being.”
― Emily Brontë

“If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.”
― Emily Jane Brontë , Wuthering Heights

“Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I can not live without my life! I can not live without my soul!”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“I am very strong. Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.”
― Rita Mae Brown

“Underneath this veneer of slightly crazy and mildly socially retarded, I'm a complete disaster.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“You’re in my bones and my blood and my heart,” he said. “I’d have to tear myself open to let you go.”
― Cassandra Clare

“There is no pretending," Jace said with absolute clarity. "I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there is life after that, I'll love you then.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Glass

“Your husband this morning! Mine tonight! What do you take him for?'
'A man' smiled Cynthia. 'And therefore, if you won't let me call him changeable, I'll coin a word and call him consolable.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters