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I knew you would do me good in some way, at some time--I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld you...

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Why can she not influence him more, when she is privileged to drawso near to him?” I asked myself. “...

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I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, ...

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Jane, will you marry me?""Yes sir.""A poor blind man, whom you will have to lead about by the hand?"...

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And it is you, spirit--with will and energy, and virtue and purity--that I want, not alone with your...

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You are going, Jane?""I am going, sir.""You are leaving me?""Yes.""You will not come? You will not b...

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I knew, you would do me good, in some way, at some time;- I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld ...

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You, sir, are the most phantom-like of all; you are a mere dream

It is a long way to Ireland, Janet, and I am sorry to send my little friend on such weary travels: b...

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~Do you like him much?~I told you I like him a little. Where is the use of caring for him so very mu...

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I wait, with some impatience in my pulse, but no doubt in my breast.

Soon," he said in his letter. They said "soon" to each other often, and "soon" gave their plan the w...

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THOMAS GuiltyOf mankind. I have perpetrated human nature. My father and mother were acces...

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You keep runnin that mouth and I'm goin to take you back there and screw you.

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Cormac McCarthyNo Country for Old Men

you roll me out flat

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D. H. LawrenceLady Chatterley's Lover

Oh, I've no patience with these romances. They're the ruin of all order. It's a thousand pities they...

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D. H. LawrenceLady Chatterley's Lover

I gasped and pointed the way. I gave you an adventure, Ed, right in front of you but you never saw i...

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Draw a circle, not a heart, around the one you love because a heart can break but a circle goes on f...

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No, Mary had no illusions about romance. Falling in love was a pretty name for it, that was all. Jem...

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Brigid O'Shaughnessy: “I haven't lived a good life. I've been bad, worse than you could know.” Sam S...

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Dashiell HammettThe Maltese Falcon

We've got a bond in common, you and I. We are both alone in the world.

This is how life works. Deciding whom to love is not an alien form of decision-making, a romantic in...

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Women, in general, are less visually aroused than men, a trait that has nearly cut the market for po...

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David BrooksThe Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love

A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.

Hugh and I have been together for so long that in order to arouse extraordinary passion, we need to ...

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David SedarisDress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

Your past is my Future.

Intimacy and romance are not synonymous.

To see the years touch ye gives me joy", he whispered, "for it means that ye live.

I thought the force of my wanting must wake ye, surely. And then ye did come. . ." He stopped, looki...

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Why?" I shrieked, hitting him again and again, and again, the sound of the blows thudding against hi...

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That dog is a wolf, is he not?''Aye, well, mostly.'A small flash of hazel told him not to quibble.'A...

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Gentle he would be, denied he would not.

Blood of my Blood," he whispered, "and bone of my bone. You carry me within ye, Claire, and ye canna...

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I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean so...

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But I talk to you as I talk to my own soul," he said, turning me to face him. He reached up and cupp...

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No. Ye loved him. I canna hold it against either of you that ye mourn him. And it gives me some comf...

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And I mean to hear ye groan like that again. And to moan and sob, even though you dinna wish to, for...

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Ian, man, I didna tell ye because I didna wish to lose you too. My brother was gone, and my father. ...

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Oh, aye, Sassenach. I am your master . . . and you're mine. Seems I canna possess your soul without ...

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Ye are Blood of my Blood, and Bone of my Bone,I give ye my Body, that we Two might be One.I give ye ...

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It would ha' been a good deal easier, if ye'd only been a witch.

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Diana GabaldonThe Exile: An Outlander Graphic Novel

I want to take ye to bed. In my bed. And I mean to spend the rest of the day thinking what to do wit...

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It wasn't a thing I had consciously missed, but having it now reminded me of the joy of it; that dro...

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Tell me of this Wizard Howl of yours". Sophie's teeth chattered but she said proudly, "He's the best...

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He held out his hand to Sophie, just like Mrs. Pentstemmon, but a little less royally. Sophie levere...

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Much more. We're joined at the heart.""Bad luck for you, I'm afraid. My ticker's pretty wonky.""Too ...

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Diane AckermanOne Hundred Names for Love: A Stroke

I require three things in a man: he must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.

Standing each by his monster, they looked at each other, and smiled

George had turned at the sound of her arrival. For a moment he contemplated her, as one who had fall...

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This desire to govern a woman -- it lies very deep, and men and women must fight it together.... But...

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Eccolo!” he exclaimed.At the same moment the ground gave way, and with a cry she fell out of the woo...

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It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, mu...

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The tragedy of preparedness has scarcely been handled, save by the Greeks. Life is indeed dangerous,...

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Mr. Herriton, don’t – please, Mr. Herriton – a dentist. His father’s a dentist.” Philip gave a cry o...

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E. M. ForsterWhere Angels Fear to Tread

To HelenI saw thee once-once only-years ago;I must not say how many-but not many.It was a july midni...

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I took her in my arms and kissed her.And thus in the midst of a city of wild conflict, filled with t...

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Twenty years have intervened; for ten of them I lived and fought for Dejah Thoris and her people, an...

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And so, in silence, we walked the surface of a dying world, but in the breast of one of us at least ...

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There was one slight, desperate chance, and that I decided I must take--it was for Dejah Thoris, and...

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He could not imagine being bored by Susy -- or trying to escape from her if he were. He could not th...

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Your neck. I want to kiss it.

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Edmond RostandCyrano de Bergerac

Love . . . is like nature, but in reverse; first it fruits, then it flowers, then it seems to wither...

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Edna O'BrienLantern Slides: Short Stories

[A]s people are beginning to see that the sexes form in a certain sense a continuous group, so they ...

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Edward CarpenterThe Intermediate Sex: A Study of Some Transitional Types of Men and Women

In the case of Michel Angelo we have an artist who with brush and chisel portrayed literally thousan...

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Edward CarpenterThe Intermediate Sex: A Study of Some Transitional Types of Men and Women

Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.

A romantic man often feels more uplifted with two women than with one: his love seems to hit the ide...

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Elizabeth BowenThe Death of the Heart

- Ay! Thornton o' Marlborough Mill, as we call him.- He is one of the masters you are striving with,...

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He shrank from hearing Margaret's very name mentioned; he, while he blamed her – while he was jealou...

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Take care. If you do not speak – I shall claim you as my own in some strange presumptuous way. Send ...

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I would far rather have two or three lilies of the valley gathered for me by a person I like, than t...

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There’s a part of me which has always wanted to hear a man say, "Let me take care of you forever," a...

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I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and w...

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We must all get our hearts broken sometimes. This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we...

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Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same; and Linton's is as different as a moonbea...

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LinesI die but when the grave shall pressThe heart so long endeared to theeWhen earthy cares no more...

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He’s more myself than I am

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Emily BrontëWuthering Heights

Existence, after losing her, would be hell

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Emily BrontëWuthering Heights

I've always said, stuff the engagement ring! Just build me a really big library.

Conor, I could search the world for another swashbuckling scientist, but I doubt if I would find one...

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How do I love thee? wondered Orion. "Let me see. I love thee passionately and eternally...obviously ...

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Sometimes I used to think that one day i should wake up, and all that had been would be over. forgot...

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It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.

Don't you believe I love you? Don't know how I can make you believe. I didn't want to kiss you goodb...

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You've got an awfully kissable mouth.

I want you to lie to me just as sweetly as you know how for the rest of my life.

My courage is faith--faith in the eternal resilience of me--that joy'll come back, and hope and spon...

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I hope I haven't given you the impression that I consider kissing intrinsically irrational.

Never miss a party...good for the nerves--like celery.

no girl can permanently bolster up a lame-duck visitor, because these day it's every girl for hersel...

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Take off that darn fur coat!...Or maybe you'd like to have us open all the windows.

She was overstrained with grief and loneliness: almost any shoulder would have done as well.

Go on, she urged. Lie to me by the moonlight. Do a fabulous story.

I'll drink your champagne. I'll drink every drop of it, I don't care if it kills me.

Believe me, I may be a bit blasé, but I can still get any man I want.

It's all life is. Just going 'round kissing people.

I love her and that's the beginning and end of everything.

I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her we...

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A phrase began to beat in my ears with a sort of heady excitement: "There are only the pursued, the ...

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I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know,is that the sentimental person t...

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C'mon, Amory. Your romance is overYou don't know how true you spoke. No idea. 'At's the whole troubl...

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