Summary: The text explores a romantic line from Whittier’s poem “Maud Muller.” It contrasts the sadness of lost potential love with the harsh reality of life after marriage. The author also includes a rewrite that highlights the disappointment of how things turned out.
“He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina (View Highlight)
“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone forever.” Wentworth in a letter to Anne at the conclusion of _Persuasion_by Jane Austen (View Highlight)
Rochester says to Jane Eyre in that great romantic chapter with lots of lines worth remembering: “Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear. Your mind is my treasure, and if it were broken, it would be my treasure still…” (View Highlight)
“You and I, it’s as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to see if we know what we were taught.”
(Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak) (View Highlight)
“But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.” (View Highlight)
Tale of Two Cities. “It is a far far better thing that I do, than I have ever done it is a far far better rest that I go to that I have ever known.” (View Highlight)
“I’ll be looking for you, every moment, every single moment. And when we do find each other again, we’ll cling together so tight that nothing and no one’ll ever tear us apart.
Every atom of me and every atom of you. We’ll live in birds and flowers and dragonflies and pine trees and in clouds and in those little specks of light you see floating in sunbeams.
And when they use our atoms to make new lives, they won’t just be able to take one, they’ll have to take two, one of you and one of me.”
Doubt thou the stars are fire, doubt that the sun doth move, doubt truth to be a liar, but never doubt I love. - Shakespeare, Hamlet (View Highlight)
“I would rather spend one lifetime with you, than face all the ages of this world alone.” - J.R.R. Tolkien, “The Fellowship of the Ring (View Highlight)
Jane Austen’s Emma: “If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.” (View Highlight)