Seeking appropriate quotations

Still fiddling around with Chapter 2 of "Teach Me to Live" in the hopes of delaying the 'reveal'...

For some reason I decided that it would be a good idea to head each chapter of the story now dubbed "Count Philippe Takes a Hand" with an appropriate quotation from the original novel( Read more... )

Ironically, the Christine and Raoul in the final chapters of "Count Philippe" are actually a good five years younger (and less battered) than the versions in "To Ease Your Troubled Mind", despite all the references to 'old lovers'! While it presumably makes a difference to their relationship that they are forty and have been physically familiar for those twenty years rather being forty-five and having been separated for fifteen, it occurs to me that it might make more sense to amend the wording at this point of the story to refer to familiarity rather than aging.