All romances end at marriage. — Thomas Hardy

It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.

And at home by the fire, whenever you look up, there I shall be — and whenever I look up, there will be you.

To find themselves utterly alone at night where company is desirable and expected makes some people fearful; but a case more trying by far to the nerves is to discover some mysterious companionship when intuition, sensation, memory, analogy, testimony, probability, induction — every kind of evidence in the logician's list — have united to persuade consciousness that it is quite in isolation.