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I feel like I got shot

“‘Love him,’ said Jacques, with vehemence, ‘love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?’”

”It was like holding in my hand some rare, exhausted, nearly doomed bird which I had miraculously happened to find. I was very frightened; I am sure he was frightened too, and we shut our eyes.”
“I feel in myself now a faint, a dreadful stirring of what so overwhelmingly stirred in me then, a fear thirsty heat, and trembling, and tenderness so painful I thought my heart would burst.”