"A change of environment is the traditional fallacy upon which doomed loves, and lungs, rely."

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Looking at them now, thought Jim, you'd never believe they weren't in love with each other, and not with a hopeless, doomed obsession like poor Isabel Meredith. This was what love ought to be like: playful and passionate and teasing, and dangerous, too, with sharp intelligence in it.

— Philip Pullman