Adoration

"Looking at him now-even if she hadn't been in love with him, that part of her that was her mother's daugher, that loved every beautiful thing for its beauty alone, would still have wanted him."

"Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you?"

"If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself ~ all that runs over will be yours."

"He loved her for almost everything she was & she decided that was enough to let him stay for a very long time."

"So much of the language of love was like that: you devoured someone with your eyes, you drank in the sight of him, you swallowed him whole. Love was substance, broken down and beating through your bloodstream."

"My heart only ever had one thought, one want. One need. Despite all, in spite of all...All my heart has ever wanted is you."