Little Women - Louisa May Alcott

"I know better!" broke in Laurie. "You think so now, but there'll come a time
when you will care for somebody, and you'll love him tremendously, and live
and die for him. I know you will, it's your way, and I shall have to stand by and
see it," and the despairing lover cast his hat upon the ground with a gesture that
would have seemed comical, if his face had not been so tragic.