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“I love you. Most ardently.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“The French girls would tell you, to believe that you were pretty would make you so.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters

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

“To want and not to have, sent all up her body a hardness, a hollowness, a strain. And then to want and not to have- to want and want- how that wrung the heart, and wrung it again and again!”
― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse