Books are about what goes on in a character’s head; movies are about what they’re doing.
- Dr. Doug Lyle, on the Writers on Writing podcast

She turned back to me, her eyes set on mine. “One thing I didn’t want to know, that I was afraid to know: I loved you from the start.”

Well. And well. That sent my heart into my throat. Between suddenly dumbstruck and deliriously happy, all I came out with was an eloquent mumble.

– Carlo Chuchio, in Lloyd Alexander’s The Golden Dream of Carlo Chuchio

“Your feelings may be the strongest but ours are the most tender. Man is more robust than woman, but he is not longer-lived. You have difficulties, and privations, and dangers enough to struggle with. It would be hard indeed if woman’s feelings were to be added to all this. All the privilege I claim for my own sex is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.”

—Anne Elliot in Jane Austen’s Persuasion