My heart beat so hard when I was near him, I feared he could hear my secret longing for him. – Terri Guillemets, 1988, journal

[M]y inexperienced heart was stormed. I… for a week or so lived on thought and tea. But who has not fasted thus long when first absorbed by the universal passion! – “Diary of a Surgeon,” in The Library of Fiction, or Family Story-Teller; consist

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity. – Henry Van Dyke

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I. – Michel de Montaigne