“There was one slight, desperate chance, and that I decided I must take--it was for Dejah Thoris, and no man has lived who would not risk a thousand deaths for such as she.” LoveRomanceSacrificeRomanticDejah ThorisJohn CarterA Princess Of MarsBarsoom Book:A Princess of Mars Source: A Princess of Mars
“Twenty years have intervened; for ten of them I lived and fought for Dejah Thoris and her people, and for ten I have lived upon her memory.” LoveRomanceSadRomanticPassionatePassionate LoveDejah ThorisJohn CarterA Princess Of Mars Book:A Princess of Mars Source: A Princess of Mars
“I took her in my arms and kissed her. And thus in the midst of a city of wild conflict, filled with the alarms of war; with death and destruction reaping their terrible harvest around her, did Dejah Thoris, Princess of Helium, true daughter of Mars, the God of War, promise herself in marriage to John Carter, Gentleman of Virginia.” LoveWarRomanceMarriageRomanticKissEngagedEngagementPrincessMarsProposalDejah ThorisJohn CarterBarsoom Author:Edgar Rice Burroughs
“Day had now given away to night and as we wandered along the great avenue lighted by the two moons of Barsoom, and with Earth looking down upon us out of her luminous green eye, it seemed that we were alone in the universe, and I, at least, was content that it should be so.” EarthNightUniverseDejah ThorisJohn CarterBarroom Book:A Princess of Mars Source: A Princess of Mars
“And so, in silence, we walked the surface of a dying world, but in the breast of one of us at least had been born that which is ever oldest, yet ever new. I loved Dejah Thoris. The touch of my arm upon her naked shoulder had spoken to me in words I would not mistake, and I knew that I had loved her since the first moment my eyes had met hers that first time in the plaza of the dead city of Korad.” LoveRomanceLove QuotesRomanticFalling In LoveIn LoveRomantic QuotesDejah ThorisJohn CarterA Princess Of MarsEdgar Rice Burroughs Book:A Princess of Mars Source: A Princess of Mars