"I realized what I felt for her was nothing like what I felt for Calleigh, and I'd given up on the idea some time before as well." She shook her head. "I remember how I felt during the island's influence and how we made something out of nothing since, so I have a much better understanding of what love is now than I did then. What I felt for Nefret was more the leftover infatuation of a boy, not the love a grown man feels for a woman."
"Calleigh was a professional woman born in a different country more than a century after myself. She was raised by middle class American parents and I by eccentric Victorian British aristocrats. I'd suspect you and Darcy have more in common than you think."