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“It has made me better loving you… it has made me wiser, and easier,
and — I won’t pretend to deny — brighter and nicer and even stronger.
I used to want a great many things before, and to be angry that I didn’t
have them. Theoretically I was satisfied, as I once told you. I flattered
myself I had limited my wants. But I was subject to irritation; I used to
have morbid, sterile, hateful fits of hunger, of desire. Now I really am
satisfied, because I can’t think of anything better.”
The Portrait of a Lady, Henry James
How beautiful is this passage from writer Mark Twain?
“I cannot promise you a life of sunshine;
I cannot promise riches, wealth, or gold;
I cannot promise you an easy pathway
That leads away from change or growing old.
But I can promise all my heart's devotion;
A smile to chase away your tears of sorrow;
A love that's ever true and ever growing;
A hand to hold in yours through each tomorrow.”
Mark Twain
This one is a little longer, but I think you’ll agree that the sentiment is too
gorgeous to ignore!
“Come live with me and be my love,
And we will all the pleasures prove
My housemate studied The Portrait of a Lady while we were at University.
While I never read it all the way through myself, this quote always stuck
out. I swore I would use it one day!
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints,--I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life!-- and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning