“It has been everything for me to see you.”
Source: The Wings of the Dove
“Satisfied to die in the flower of her youth?"
"Well, at peace with you."
"Oh, 'peace'!" he murmured with his eyes on the fire.
"The peace of having loved."
He raised his eyes to her. "Is that peace?"
"Of having been loved," she went on. "That is. Of having," she wound up, "realised her passion. She wanted nothing more. She had had all she wanted.”
Source: The Wings of the Dove
“I don't think I can attempt to say now what it was. Some day—perhaps.”
Source: The Wings of the Dove
“I don't know, upon my honour, what I'm doing.”
Source: The Wings of the Dove
“The days, whether lapsing or lingering, were a stiff reality; the suppression of anxiety was a thin idea; the taste of life itself was the taste of suspense.”
Source: The Wings of the Dove
“I love you. It's because I love you that I'm here.”
Source: The Wings of the Dove
“There was something deep within him that he had absolutely shown to no one—to the companion of these walks in particular not a bit more than he could help; but he was none the less haunted, under its shadow, with a dire apprehension of its publicity.”
Source: The Wings of the Dove
“I'll marry you, mind you, in an hour."
"As we were?"
"As we were."
But she turned to the door, and her headshake was now the end. "We shall never be again as we were!”
Source: The Wings of the Dove
“If you decline to understand me I wholly decline to understand you.”
Source: The Wings of the Dove
“People think that if they travel inwards, it will confirm their worst fears and then there will be no hope. You are not your worst fears. You are more than your best dreams.”
Source: Sonder: Spiritual Fiction