I never expected you to love me, I didn't see any reason that you should, I never thought myself very lovable. - William Somerset Maugham

Her tears were partly tears of happiness, for she felt that the strangeness between them was gone. She loved him now with a new love because he had made her suffer.

...the future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.

Are you sure you can prevent yourself from falling in love one of these days? Such things do happen, you know, even to the most prudent men.'

Simon gave him a strange, one might even have thought a hostile, look.

I should tear it out of my heart as I'd wrench out of my mouth a rotten tooth.