Love was generous precisely because it could never be immortal.

“Your name is a golden bell hung in my heart. I would break my body to pieces to…”

“Ah, love may be strong, but a habit is stronger,And I knew when I loved by the …”

“He really would have done all that for her, you see, and done it believing he'd…”

“Outside, the night lay coiled in the street, cobra-cold and scaled with stars.”