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“I have for the first time found what I can truly love–I have found you. You are my sympathy–my better self–my good angel–I am bound to you with a strong attachment. I think you good, gifted, lovely: a fervent, a solemn passion is conceived in my heart; it leans to you, draws you to my centre and spring of life, wrap my existence about you–and, kindling in pure, powerful flame, fuses you and me in one.”
― Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

“If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you!”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.”
― Charlotte Bronte

“You were never a pawn. You were always my queen. Everyone knew it but you.”
― Catharina Maura, The Temporary Wife

“Aut viam inveniam aut faciam,” he murmurs. “What does that mean? You’ve written it on several notes, and you’ve got it stuck to your desk at the office, too.” I raise my brows, surprised he noticed that. “It roughly translates to I’ll either find a way or create one. It’s my favorite quote, and it’s the one that kept me going throughout the years.”
― Catharina Maura, The Temporary Wife

“He bought this restaurant after he found out I was going on a date?”
― Catharina Maura, The Temporary Wife

“I’m just in love with you,” he counters. “I’m irrevocably, insanely, unconditionally, in love with you.”
― Catharina Maura, The Temporary Wife

“You know what?” I tell him. “I haven’t gone on my knees for him yet.” I frown, regret washing over me. “It’s not fair, now that I think about it. I should really remedy that.”
― Catharina Maura, The Temporary Wife

“You drive me truly, utterly, entirely, mad,” he whispers, his forehead pressed against mine.”
― Catharina Maura, The Temporary Wife

“Good girl,” I whisper. “You’re such a fucking good girl, Valentina. You deserve a reward, baby.” She looks at me with such desperation that my heart skips a fucking beat. This is my every fantasy come true.”
― Catharina Maura, The Temporary Wife

“I pity the fool that’ll end up marrying my sister.”
― Catharina Maura, The Temporary Wife

“Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
― Rumi