"By unnerving definition, anything that the heart has chosen for its own mysterious reasons it can always unchoose later—again, for its own mysterious reasons."
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"There is no choice more intensely personal, after all, than whom you choose to marry; that choice tells us, to a large extent, who you are."
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"Only the young and stupid are confident about sex and romance."
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"Love renders all of our plans and all of our hopes a gamble."
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"How many young men, in all previous times of unprecedented steadiness, had turned suddenly wild and wicked for the same reason, and, in an ecstasy of unrequited love, taken to wrench off door-knockers, and invert the boxes of rheumatic watchmen!"
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"O madam, my old heart is cracked, it's cracked!"
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"And I'm dying to know, is it killing you like it's killing me? And the story of us looks a lot like a tragedy now."
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"The feeling of loving her and being loved by her welled up in him, and he could taste the adrenaline in the back of his throat, and maybe it wasn't over, and maybe he could feel her hand in his again and hear her loud, brash voice contort itself into a whisper to say I-love-you as if it were a secret, and an immense one."
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