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“How I wished that he could feel heart's-ease! How I grieved that he brooded over pain, and pain from such a cause! He, with his great advantages, he to love in vain! I did not then know that the pensiveness of reverse is the best phase for some minds; nor did I reflect that some herbs, "though scentless when entire, yield fragrance when they're bruised.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Villette

“Love is a capricious creature which desires everything and can be contented with almost nothing.”
― Madeleine de Scudéry

“There is a sacredness in tears....They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition and of unspeakable love.”
― Washington Irving

“...I'm terrified of passive acquiescence. I live in intensity.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Writer's Diary