...the vigorous tenacity of love, always so much stronger than hate...

Charles Dickens, "A Tale of Two Cities"

When her husband was brought in, she turned a look upon him, so sustaining, so encouraging, so full of admiring love and pitying tenderness, yet so courageous for his sake, that it called the healthy blood into his face, brightened his glance, and animated his heart.

Charles Dickens, "A Tale of Two Cities"

Now, from the days when it was always summer in Eden, to these days when it is mostly winter in fallen latitudes, the world of a man has invariably gone one way - Charles Darnay's way - the way of the love of a woman.

Charles Dickens, "A Message From the Sea"

...true love believes everything, and bears everything, and trusts everything.

Charles Dickens, "A Message From the Sea"

Alice could love deeply, but could not talk about it. The perpetual requirement of loving words, looks, and caresses, and misconstruing their absence into absence of love, had been the great trial of her former married life.

Charles Dickens, "A House to Let"