Marriage is one long sacrifice.

“Don't you ever mind," she asked suddenly, "not being rich enough to buy all the…”

“Her soul opened slowly and timidly to her kind, but her imagination rushed out …”

“He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled dreams of an ina…”

“Some men," Flamel irresistibly added, "think of books merely as tools, others a…”