Some more quotes from some other books

"Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte:

"What were the use of my creation if I were entirely contained here? My great miseries in this world have been Heathcliff's miseries, and I watched and felt each from the beginning; my great thought in living is himself. If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the Universe would turn to a mighty stranger. I would not seem a part of it. My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods. Time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees - my love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath - a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff-he's always, always in my mind - not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself - but as my own being-"
This, said by a lady, married to a man named Linton, talking of her childhood love, Heathcliff - two people thrown together and away from all else in the initial days of their conscious life.

"Scarlet Pimpernal" by Baroness Emmuska Orczy":

"He seemed to worship me with a curious intensity of concentrated passion, which went straight to my heart. I had never loved any one before and I was four-and-twenty then - so I naturally thought it was not in my nature to love. But it has always seemed to me that it MUST be HEAVENLY to be loved blindly, passionately, wholly... worshipped, in fact - and the very fact that he was slow and stupid was an attraction for me, as I thought he would love me all the more. A clever man would naturally have other interests, an ambitious man other hopes... I thought that a fool would worship me, and think of nothing else. And I was ready to respond, to allow myself to be worshipped, and give infinite tenderness in return... "
This, said by a lady justifying why she married a man she thought to be a fool.