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“And then, after the first blush of the admiration which he could not help feeling, he began to be tortured by the pangs of…

— Alexandre Dumas

“But fierce as my attraction was, I also knew that it was more than just a physical attraction [...], more than just a momentenry…

— Paul Auster

“If she could have anticipated them, how she would have shrunk away and hid herself from the coming time! And yet day by day…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“Incessantly she puzzled him: one hour so intimate and charming, striving desperately toward an unguessed, transcendent union; the next, silent and cold, apparently unmoved…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“behind a very sturdily built and staunchly defended facade of practical, unromantic hard-headedness towards life, there was just that little pool of softness that…

— Isaac Asimov

“I found lines that mirrored an ache and longing I had so often felt when the beauty around my woods cathedral was too intense,…

— Irene Hunt

“...and then, with the first and last sound I ever uttered—a ghastly ululation that revolted me almost as poignantly as its noxious cause—I beheld…

— The Outsider H. P. Lovecraft

“I know, by instinct, his reserve springs from an aversion to showy displays of feeling—to manifestations of mutual kindliness.”

— Emily Brontë

“I lifted my head up once more, noticing the contentment in his eyes as he looked at me. It was similar to the peace…

— Jamie McGuire

“As if pulled by my growing sense of beauty, I then felt myself expand at the emotional level into a profound feeling of love…

— James Redfield

“And from that moment, I watched her. Watched her with different coloured eyes, until the raging energy that coursed through my body finally revealed…

— Sarah Winman

“and that feeling, that feeling of being accepted back again and again, of someone’s affection for you expanding to encompass whatever new flawed thing…

— George Saunders