I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.

Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.

What greater gift than the love of a cat.

I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.

‎And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire.

A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.

Before I go," he said, and paused -- "I may kiss her?"It was remembered afterwards that when he bent down and touched her face with his lips, he murmured some words. The child, who was nearest to him, told them afterwards, and told her grandchildren when she was a handsome old lady, that she heard him say, "A life you love.

I have seen you give him looks and smiles this very night, such as you never give to—me.""Do you want me then," said Estella, turning suddenly with a fixed and serious, if not angry look, "to deceive and entrap you?""Do you deceive and entrap him, Estella?""Yes, and many others—all of them but you.

To die is our heavy portion, but, oh, let us die with life about us; when our cold hearts cease to beat, let warm hearts be beating near (...).