“I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach. You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight years and a half ago. Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant. You alone have brought me to Bath. For you alone, I think and plan.” Captain Wentworth to Anne Elliot Persuasion
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“Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; a mother’s secret hope outlives them all.” Oliver Wendell Holmes
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“But I have trusted in your steadfast love; my heart shall rejoice in your salvation.” Psalm 13:5
