There were days—there were many days—these words could burn stars… and raise up empires… and topple gods. // But there was a time—there were years—when I couldn’t live without you.
“Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour ... If at my convenience I might break them, what would be their worth?”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre