“He knows he is my sun, but when he chooses to withhold his light, he would have my sky to be all darkness; he cannot bear that I should have a moon to mitigate the deprivation.”

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XXVI : The Guests; Helen Graham

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British novelist and poet 1820–1849

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