Experience: Love

Affection, attraction, and emotional attachment

Related terms: Generous Love

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The Cheat Sheet
Experience: Love
Narrative Technology: Almighty Heart
How Nathan goes out of his way for Bree to remember the little things – having flowers sent to her house in her favorite colors, but also having his perspective of him being so worried to mess things up
Contributed by: Sophia Sullivan
June 5, 2025
Jane Eyre
Experience: Love
Narrative Technology: Secret Discloser
In the moment he is announcing his engagement to Miss Ingram, Rochester says (after Jane says that a new situation will be a long way "from you, sir") "I sometimes have a queer feeling with regard to you--especially when you are near me, as now: it is as if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly and inextricably knotted to a similar string situated in the corresponding quarter of your little frame. And if that boisterous channel, and two hundred miles or so of land came braod between us, I am afraid that cord of communion will be snapped; and then I've a nervous notion that I should take to bleeding inwardly. As for you--you'll forget me"
Contributed by: mi
January 9, 2025
Sappho's Lyrics
Experience: Love
Narrative Technology: Secret Discloser
Some say that horsemen,/ or soldiers, or ships,; are the most beautiful things on earth--but I say it's your love. Isn't that why/ Helen, the most beautiful/ of women,/ left the best of men/ and sailed to Troy?// Forgetting her child/ and her mother, because; in a glance she felt// Love
Contributed by: angusif
January 9, 2025
Fleabag
Experience: Love
Narrative Technology: I Voice
After many small disclosures, the main character reveals (through flashbacks) something she was deeply ashamed about. Earlier in the season, the camera shows an entire car of people performing to "Sail" and then Fleabag looks at the camera and says "I think my period's coming."
Contributed by: mi
January 9, 2025
My Antonia
Experience: Love
Narrative Technology: I Voice
Jim Burden shares "One dream I dreamed a great many times, and it was always the same. I was in a harvest-field full of shocks, and I was lying against one of them. Lena Lingard came across the stubble barefood, in a short skirt, with a curved reaping-hook in her hand, and she was flushed like thedawn, with a kind of luminous rosiness all about her. She sat down beside me, turned to me with a soft sign and said, "Now they are all gone, and I can kiss you as much as I like." I used to wish could have this flattering dream about Antonia, but I never did.
Contributed by: angusif
January 9, 2025
A Farewell to Arms
Experience: Love
Narrative Technology: I Voice
"I'm not brave any more, darling. I'm all broken. They've broken me. I know it now"
Contributed by: angusif
January 9, 2025