Evikido

“But if I feel, may I never express?”
“Never!” declared Reason.

I groaned under her bitter sternness. Never - never - oh, hard word! This hag, this Reason, would not let me look up, or smile, or hope; she could not rest unless I were altogether crushed, cowed, broken-in, and broken down. According to her, I was born only to work for a piece of bread, to await the pains of death, and steadily through all life to despond. Reason might be right; yet no wonder we are glad at times to defy her, to rush from under her rod and give a truant hour to Imagination - her soft, bright foe, our sweet Help, our divine Hope.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Villette

“There is, in lovers, a certain infatuation of egotism; they will have a witness of their happiness, cost that witness what it may.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Villette

“So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

“While I loved, and while I was loved, what an existence I enjoyed!”
― Charlotte Brontë, Villette