They are all alike you know. They hold their tongues for years and you think you're safe, but when the opportunity comes they remember everything.

They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods

Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.

And I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, & consequently suggests more tugging, & pain, & diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

As he paid the hansom and followed his wife's long train into the house he took refuge in the comforting platitude that the first six months were always the most difficult in marriage. 'After that I suppose we shall have pretty nearly finished rubbing off each other’s angles,' he reflected; but the worst of it was that May's pressure was already bearing on the very angles whose sharpness he most wanted to keep

The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!