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“My heart is too thoroughly dried to be broken.”

“A few months’ arduous toil might well be borne by me, with such an end in view.”

“nothing moves you. I wish my nature were as calm as yours!”

“My nature was not originally calm,” said I. “I have learnt to appear so by dint of hard lessons and many repeated efforts.”

“nothing can recall the past.”

“You do not complain, but I see, and feel, and know that you are miserable — and must remain so as long as you keep those walls of impenetrable ice about your still warm and palpitating heart.”

“I knew you were too high-minded and pure and your own nature to continue to guard one so utterly false and polluted with any feelings but those of indignation and scornful abhorrence!”

“Another year is past, and I am weary of this life. And yet I cannot wish to leave it: whatever afflictions assail me here”

“I had no earthly hope but this, and he seems to take a diabolical delight and tearing it away.”

“This was a new stab to my already tortured heart.”

“A lurking gleam of self-complacent triumph at every detection of relenting softness in my manner that congealed me to marble again as often as it recurred. And this morning he finished the business: I think the petrification is so completely effected at last that nothing can melt me again.”

“How differently I used to feel his absence!”

“Thank Heaven I am not so weak as that! I was infatuated once, with a foolish, besotted affection that clung to him in spite of his unworthiness, but it is fairly gone now — wholly crushed and withered away — and he has none but himself and his vices to thank for it.”

“I should kill him by inches.”

“the loss of your esteem is too severe a penalty. I cannot bear it.”

“Forgetfulness is not to be purchased with a wish, and I cannot bestow my esteem on all who desire it, unless they deserve it too.”

“What a good thing it is to be able to command one’s temper! I must labour to cultivate this inestimable quality: God only knows how often I shall need it in this rough, dark road that lies before me.”

“It is painful to be always disguising my true sentiments respecting you, and straining to keep up an appearance of civility and respect towards one for whom I have not the most distant shadow of esteem”

“how cruelly he has trampled on my love, betrayed my trust, scorned my prayers and tears, and efforts for his preservation, crushed my hopes, destroyed my youth’s best feelings and doomed me to a life of hopeless misery, as far as man can do it”

“none could injure me as he has done”

“It was better to be so occupied than to be lying in bed torturing my brain with recollections of the far past and anticipations of the dreadful future. I have found relief in describing the very circumstances that have destroyed my peace”

“Hitherto, I have struggled hard to hide your vices from every eye, and invest you with virtues you never possessed — but now you must look to yourself.”

“Spare yourself the trouble of forswearing yourself and racking your brains to stifle truth with falsehood”

“you have no longer any regard for me, it appears, and I have no longer any for you.”

“I wanted no confidante in my distress. I deserve none, and I wanted none. I had taken the burden upon myself: let me bear it alone.”

“if you don’t love me, you don’t, and it can’t be helped.”

“Did he not think how unworthy he was of such a possession? I fear no such idea crossed his mind.”

“Surely that man will make me dislike him at last!”

“It is painful to doubt the sincerity of those we love, but after so many proofs of falsity and utter disregard to principle how can I believe so improbable story?”

“Was it pride that made me so extremely anxious to appear satisfied with my lot, or merely a just determination to bear my self-imposed burden alone”

“And though I write as if you were some abandoned wretch, past hope and past reprieve, it is only my anxious fears, my strong desires that make me do so. One who loved you less would be less bitter, less dissatisfied.”

“I abhorred the sinner as well as the sin.”