Affection

I never wished you any sort of harm; but you wanted me to tame you.

It's not love—but she's important to me. I find myself listening for her footsteps down the hallway whenever she's been out.

To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys.And I have no need of you.
And you, on your part, have no need of me.
To you, I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes.
But if you tame me, then we shall need each other.
To me, you will be unique in all the world.

"What does that mean — 'tame'?"
"It is an act too often neglected," said the fox.
"It means to establish ties.".
"'To establish ties'?"
"Just that," said the fox.

Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant.To come with a well-informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid.

there is nothing people are so often deceived in as the state of their own affections.

You appear to me, Mr. Darcy, to allow nothing for the influence of friendship and affection. A regard for the requester would often make one readily yield to a request, without waiting for arguments to reason one into it.

To have the partner of a lifetime — for a lifetime — is rare stuff. We had be fools not to indulge it to the limit. What extraordinary freedom it is not to care about up or down, rich or poor, East Coast, West Coast, as long we are in the taxi together.