Quotes from A.S. Byatt, Possession

That is human nature, that people come after you, willingly enough, provided only that you no longer love or want them.

Outside our small safe place flies mystery.

You will not be here--I shall not be here--much lo

But I cannot love her as I did, because she is not open, because she withholds what matters, because she makes me, with her pride or her madness, live a lie.