I knew I should marry him in the end, but I never thought I could consent so soon.

Oh, Sister Gabrielle, you are so good--were you never in love ?" The Sister was silent, and looked away.
"No--of course you cannot tell me," continued Corona; "but it is such a wonderful thing.

It makes days seem like hundreds of years, or makes them pass in a flash of light, in a second.

It oversets every idea of time, and plays with one's resolutions as the wind with a feather.

If once it gets the mastery of one, it crowds a lifetime of pain and pleasure into one day; it never leaves one for a moment.