General Chat

Love has no age, no limit; and no death. John Galsworthy

Love is a universal migraine, a bright strain on the vision blotting out reason.
Symptons of true love are leanness, jealousy, laggard dawns;
Are omens and nightmares— Listening for a knock, Waiting for a sign:
For a touch of her fingers, in a darkened room, for a searching look.
Take courage, lover! Could you endure such grief at any hand but hers?

-Robert Graves.

"For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.'"

John Greenleaf Whittier

"So he left her,and she was alone. Very few people cared for her, and she for very few people.

She remained alone with herself, waiting."

Sons and Lovers. D H Lawrence

.....................he sat down for a few moments, and then getting up, walked about the room. Elizabeth was surprised, but said not a word. After a silence of several minutes, he came towards her in an agitated manner, and thus began:

"In vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you."


Mr Darcy, Pride and Prejudice. Chapter 34.

Here's mine

"If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger: I should not seem a part of it."

Sue x