That it would always be summer and autumn, and you always courting me, and always thinking as much of me as you have done through the past summertime!

He had been held to her by a beautiful thread which it pained him to spoil by breaking, rather than by a chain he could not break.

A bond between souls is ancient - older than the planet.

Just that I have loved you, even when I was nothing and no one to you, when you didn’t know my name and barely knew my face.

- Leo

This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected-in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness; it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.

The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.