“He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.” Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy

“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight years and a half ago." Persuasion, Jane Austin

“I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat was threadbare - there were holes at his elbows; the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul.” Les Miserables, Victor Hugo

“I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”  Great Expectations, Charles Dickonson

 “The heart was made to be broken.” Oscar Wilde