After all, it was never Darnay he quoted, only Sydney, drunk and wrecked and dissipated. Sydney, who died for love.

“It was strange how your world could shift on its axis and everything you truste…”

“Perhaps, but you would not exist without a woman, would you? However little use…”

“There's nothing you could have done that would cause me to cease loving either …”

“Your angel cannot protect you against that which neither god nor the devil had …”