Kindred Spirits

"I am selfish...I think not of what others would do in my situation, but of what I intend doing myself. I think only that I have known you now a whole year.

From the day I first saw you, all my hopes of happiness have been in securing your affection. One day you acknowledged that you loved me; and since that day my hope of future happiness has rested on obtaining you; for to gain you would be life to me.

Now, I think no more; I say only that fortune has turned against me - I had thought to gain Heaven, and now I have lost it."

~ Maximilian

- The Count of Monte Cristo