'Love has nothing to do with good reasons'

“He had thought at first he could change her, and she had done her best to be what he would like. But she was, after all, herself — she couldn't help that - and now there was no use pretending, wearing a mask or a dress, for he knew her and had made up his mind.”








“ Sometimes she went so far as to wish that she might find herself some day in a difficult position, so that she should have the pleasure of being as heroic as the occasion demanded.”

                                        

“The Portrait of a Lady”