Chapter 2

I loved her. I still love her, though I curse her in my sleep, so nearly one are love and hate, the two most powerful and devastating emotions that control man, nations, life.

~ Edgar Rice Burroughs

Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.

~ Saint Basil

"Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned,"

~ spoken by Zara in Act III, Scene VIII,

The Mourning Bride

by William Congreve, 1697