1. "You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you."
— Mr. Darcy, Pride and Prejudice
2. “If I see but one smile on your lips when we meet, occasioned by this or any other exertion of mine, I shall need no other happiness.”
3. “He’d never known a girl who was so beautiful and intense at once.”
4. “We had loved them, and that they hadn't heard us calling, still do not hear us... calling them out of those rooms where they went to be alone for all time, alone in suicide, which is deeper than death, and where we will never find the pieces to put them back together.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides
5. “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.”
6. “There can be no peace for us, only misery, and the greatest happiness.”
7. “To be poor but content is actually to be quite rich. But you can have endless riches and still be as poor as anyone if you are always afraid of losing your riches.”
― William Shakespeare, Othello
8. “I'm absolutely removed from the world at such times...The hours go by without my knowing it. Sitting there I'm wandering in countries I can see every detail of - I'm playing a role in the story I'm reading. I actually feel I'm the characters - I live and breath with them.”
― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
9. “It feels incredible to be outside when I’m supposed to be inside. The sensation of freedom is intoxicating."