I love you, Miss Peppiwell. Scandal will follow us all our lives, I wager. But to experience your indomitable spirit, your passion, and sensuality, and the love I can see so clearly in your eyes, is more than enough to fill a lifetime without a single regret.

Love was something he had banished from his life years ago out of necessity, but she made him yearn to be loved.

You make me burn with life, and yearn to set aside my cold and distant, solitary ways.