"What should I do—how should I act now, this very day . . . What she would resolve to do that day did not yet seem quite clear, but something that she could achieve stirred her as with an approaching murmur which would soon gather distinctness."
"Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another."
"Poor fellow! I think he is in love with you.'I am not aware of it. And to me it is one of the most odious things in a girl's life, that there must always be some supposition of falling in love coming between her and any man who is kind to her... I have no ground for the nonsensical vanity of fancying everybody who comes near me is in love with me."
"But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope."
"It is never too late to be what you might have been."
"Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love."