She put an arm around my neck, and drew my head closer down to hers as she sat in the chair.
"Love her, lover her, lover her! If she favors you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces-and as it gets older and stronger it will tear deeper-love her, love her, love her! Hear me now! I adopted her to be loved. I bred her and educated her to be loved. I developed her into what she is, that she might be loved. Love her!"
"I'll tell you," she went on in the same hurried passionate whisper,"what real love is. It is blind devotion, unquestioning self humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your whole heart and soul to someone who even smites it- just as I once did."
~Miss Havisham, GREAT EXPECTATIONS BY CHARLES DICKENS
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