Love has its own dark morality when rivalry enters in. - Thomas Hardy

She was at that modulating point between indifference and love, at the stage called having a fancy for. It occurs once in the history of the most gigantic passions, and it is a period when they are in the hands of the weakest will.

...you have torn my life all to pieces.. made me a victim, a caged bird!

To be lectured because the lecturer saw her in the cold morning light of open-shuttered disillusion was exasperating.