Now they are no longer any trouble to each other he can turn things over, get down to that list of things that never happened, all of the lost unfinishable business.
He repaid her by breaking her fortune, and nearly breaking her heart. So she put all that sort of sentiment, once and for ever, in a grave, and filled it up, and flattened it down.
He never really existed at all, except in my imagination. I loved something I made up, something that's just as dead as Melly is, I made a suit of pretty clothes and fell in love with it.
How empty is the world when you lose the one you love.
He had a bitter pain in his heart, for he knew that she was still a stranger to him and his hungry love was destined to ever remain unsatisfied.
We break our hearts, oh, we break our hearts! For the things we must not tell.
Strange that grief should now almost choke me, because another human being's eye has failed to greet mine.