I'm yours for ever--for ever and ever. Here I stand; I'm as firm as a rock. If you'll only trust me, how little you'll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.

I've thought of you perpetually, ever since I last saw you. I'm exactly the same. I love you just as much, and everything I said to you then is just as true.

Suddenly she said to him with extraordinary beauty: "I engage myself to you forever."The beauty was in everything, and he could have separated nothing—couldn't have thought of her face as distinct from the whole joy. Yet her face had a new light. "And I pledge you—I call God to witness!—every spark of my faith; I give you every drop of my life.

I don't need the aid of a clever man to teach me how to live. I can find it out for myself.

You were reserved for my future

She was a coquette; he was sure she had a spirit of her own; but in her bright, sweet, superficial little visage there was no mockery, no irony. Before long it became obvious that she was much disposed towards conversation.

Still, who could say what men ever were looking for? They looked for what they found; they knew what pleased them only when they saw it.

It was nothing, but it was somehow everything—it was that something for each of them had happened.

If I could stay —""For me you'll always be here," she softly interrupted.