Life Imitates Fiction

"I am but a poor friend to you. What a life I cause you to lead...you who are so formed for happiness! I bitterly reproach myself, I assure you."

~ Valentine

"Well! What does it signify, so long as I am satisfied? And I have also a deep conviction that Heaven would not have created two hearts, harmonizing as ours do, and restored us to each other, almost miraculously, at last to separate us."

~Maximilian

~ The Count of Monte Cristo