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That Anne should herself be noticed she felt to be astounding, and she’d received Lorna’s first attention with a confused shyness that looked aloof.
Sarah Perry • Enlightenment
Desire does not go out like a match, it extinguishes slowly as it burns into ash.
Philippe Besson • Lie With Me: 'Stunning and heart-gripping' André Aciman
like my own. Like the freckles, it made her – not unremarkable, as I had feared to find her; but marvellously, achingly real. Hearing it, I understood at last my wildness of the past seven days. I thought, how queer it is! – and yet, how very ordinary: I am in love with you. Soon her face
Sarah Waters • Tipping The Velvet (VMC Designer Collection)
He’s always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself,
Emily Bronte • Wuthering Heights
From childhood’s hour I have not been
As others were—I have not seen
As others saw—I could not bring
My passions from a common spring—
From the same source I have not taken
My sorrow—I could not awaken
My heart to joy at the same tone—
And all I lov’d—I lov’d alone
Edgar Allan Poe
All Will’s hope and contrivance were now concentrated on seeing Dorothea when she was alone. He only wanted her to take more emphatic notice of him; he only wanted to be something more special in her remembrance than he could yet believe himself likely to be. He was rather impatient under that open ardent goodwill, which he saw was her usual state
... See moreRosemary Ashton • Middlemarch
The Complete Novels of the Brontë Sisters (8 Novels: Jane Eyre, Shirley, Villette, The Professor, Emma, Wuthering Heights, Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall)
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She didn’t find him unpleasant, but her heart was like ashes from which the flame of love could no longer be lit.