“I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight and a half years ago. Dare not say that a man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you”
— Persuasion, Jane Austen
"There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison, no countenances so beloved. Now they were as strangers; nay, worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted. It was. Perpetual estrangement."
- Persuasion, Jane Austen
"A man does not recover from such a devotion of the heart to such a woman! He ought not; he does not."
Capitain Wentworth in Persuasion - by Jane Austen