Two quotes from Jane Austen's Persuasion that score my heart to this day, especially now. I am only reminded that it is three years of trying to not to love him and a lifetime forward of loving him. I had hoped that three years would cool affection, love or devotion. But they only burn steadily. So, accept them, and love. Even if it means embracing the truth of love: that it is always to be given without any hope of return. And so I love him and my heart will ne'r forget the paths we walk together to still our minds from selfish wanting.
"There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison, no countenances so beloved. Now they were strangers; nay, worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted. It was a perpetual estrangement."
"I should deserve utter contempt if I dared to suppose that true attachment and constancy were known only by women. No, I believe you capable of everything great and good ..... All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one: you need not covet it) is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone!"
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