You gain by every comparison I make and the more I contrast you with others the more amiable you appear. But I am afraid, I should only go in quest of disquiet, that would make me return to you with redoubled tenderness.

A new mistress is supposed to be the best cure for an excessive attachment to an old- if I was convinced of the success of the scheme, I would be tempted to try it- for though it is the pride of my heart to love you it is the torment of it to love you so much, separated as we now are. I must in spite of myself become an inconstant to detach myself from you, for as it now stands I love you more than I ought-more than is consistent with my peace. You are certainly a little sorceress and have bewitched me, for you have made me disrelish every thing that used to please me, and have rendered me as restless and unsatisfied with all about me, as if I was the inhabitant of another world, and had nothing in common with this. Immediately after dinner, I stole from a crowd of company to a solitary walk to be at leisure to think of you, and I have just returned to tell you by an express this moment going off that I have been doing so.

Angelica quote to eliza