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“My thoughts are violent and uncertain, and I am not able to control them; I no longer think myself worthy of you, nor do I think you are worthy of me; I adore you, I hate you, I offend you, I ask your pardon, I admire you, I blush for my admiration: in a word, I have nothing of tranquillity or reason left about me:”
― Madame de La Fayette, The Princess of Cleves

“Right after he spoke, Blue threw her arms tightly around his neck. Right after he spoke, she pressed her face into the side of his. Right after he spoke, she held him like a shouted word. Love, love, love.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven King

“I stared at absurd Paris, which was as cluttered now, under the scalding sun, as the landscape of my heart.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

“I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations