"Young love needs dangers and barriers to..." - Quote by George Sand

“nature has not changed. The night is still unsullied, the stars still twinkle, and the wild thyme smells as sweetly now as it did then ... We may be afflicted and unhappy, but no one can take from us the sweet delight which is nature's gift to those who love her and her poetry.”

“Heavens! whatever possesses us, here below, that we mutually torment ourselves, sourly reproach our mutual faults, and mercilessly condemn all that is not cut according to our pattern?”

“Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.”

“Cupid "the little greatest enemy."”

“What matters is how well we have loved, and what small part we have played in making the lives around us better.”

“Brains are an asset to the woman in love who's smart enough to hide 'em.”

“I suddenly understood that even love and caring weren't always enough. They were the concrete bricks of our relationship, but unstable without the mortar of time spent together, time without the threat of imminent separation hanging over us.”

“My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived.”

“If you try to fight the course, it will beat you.”