A Princess of Mars

From the beginning of time upon Barsoom it has been the prerogative of woman to change her mind as she listed and to dissemble in matters concerning her heart

Yes, I was a fool, but I was in love, and though I was suffering the greatest misery I had ever known I would not have had it otherwise

Fear is a relative term and so I can only measure my feelings at that time by what I had experienced in previous positions of danger

I do not know why I should fear death, I who have died twice and am still alive; but yet I have the same horror of it as you who have never died, and it is because of this terror of death, I believe, that I am so convinced of my mortality.

I could not chance causing her additional pain or sorrow by declaring a love which, in all probability she did not return