How we cite our quotes: Citations follow this format: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #10
“It isn't possible to love and to part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal” (19.42).
Wise old Mr. Emerson speaks from experience here. Knowing what we do about his deceased wife, we can be sure that he still loves her, and always will. He’s imploring Lucy to admit to the fact that she loves George – because regardless of how much she denies it, she always will.