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Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can – that is their secret.

To my three sons, Peter, Scott, and Alexander who pulled me from the 18th Century and back into the present on a regular basis and therefore made me a better person, thank you. And to my wife, who sits at the table there. Who is right about almost everything.

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

Love is not consolation. It is light.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

Remember tonight… for it is the beginning of always.

There is no such thing as a lovers’ oath.

Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.