“He promised her that he would give her everything, everything she wanted, as men in love always do. And she trusted him despite herself, as women in love always do.”

“I can't sleep, I can't eat, I can't do anything but think about him. At night I dream of him, all day I wait to see him, and when I do see him my heart turns over and I think I will faint with desire.”

“I would know you anywhere for my true love. Whoever I was and whoever you were, I would know you at once for my true love.”

“I have given my word that only death will take me from you.”

“When they see us dance. When they see how you look at me. When they see how I smile at you.”

“I have seen sights and travelled in countries you cannot imagine. I have been afraid and I have been in danger, and I have never for one moment thought that I would throw myself at at a man for his...”

“I sit on the bed and kick off my shoes, and he kneels before me and takes the riding boots, holding one open for my bare foot. I hesitate; it is such an intimate gesture between a young woman and a...”

“Say yes,’ he whispers. ‘Marry me.’I hesitate. I open my eyes. ‘You will get my fortune,’ I remark. ‘When I marry you, everything I have becomes yours. Just as George has everything that belongs to ...”

“A man should not compete with his wife in talk but in silence”

“Before marriage a man prays that she accepts, after marriage a woman prays that he accepts”

“Nothing annoys in this world as a nagging wife”