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1tesslouise
I would have sworn this was from Thornyhold by Mary Stewart, but I recently re-read it, and it's not there.
All I remember is a quote. One woman, we'll call her A, is talking to a second woman, we'll call her B, about the use of a love potion. B had wanted to use a love potion to capture the love of her life, but it failed somehow (he didn't eat whatever it was, and someone else did?), but they wind up together anyway. A says to B that she should be glad it didn't work, because otherwise she would always have wondered if the love of her life would have chosen her, or if he were just under a spell.
This could be from pretty much any genre or era, since all I remember is that quote!
All I remember is a quote. One woman, we'll call her A, is talking to a second woman, we'll call her B, about the use of a love potion. B had wanted to use a love potion to capture the love of her life, but it failed somehow (he didn't eat whatever it was, and someone else did?), but they wind up together anyway. A says to B that she should be glad it didn't work, because otherwise she would always have wondered if the love of her life would have chosen her, or if he were just under a spell.
This could be from pretty much any genre or era, since all I remember is that quote!
2LibraryPerilous
Maybe an L. M. Montgomery short story, "White Magic," from her Among the Shadows collection? Although it's not quite as you describe: The elder sister is engaged to one man and loves another, so her younger sister obtains a love potion to put on the elder's eyes. The elder sister awakens and sees the man she loves, not her fiance, and they elope. The younger sister (Janet, I think) is distraught because she thinks she has hurt her sister's fiance. The fiance has been in love with the younger sister the whole time, so he is happy with the outcome.
I remember the older sister saying something similar to what you described above, maybe along the lines of "I was in love with the other guy anyway, so no spell could change that." Actually, that doesn't sound like your quote at all, but I'm posting my suggestion anyway. ;)
Project Gutenberg has the story here.
I remember the older sister saying something similar to what you described above, maybe along the lines of "I was in love with the other guy anyway, so no spell could change that." Actually, that doesn't sound like your quote at all, but I'm posting my suggestion anyway. ;)
Project Gutenberg has the story here.
3jjmcgaffey
Perilous Gard, by Elizabeth Marie Pope, has this - right at the end. The faerie queen gave her a thing to put in a drink of the man she loved - but before she did it, someone told her he loved her (or he admits it, or something). She ends up thinking that it was an excellent revenge try by the queen - if she'd put the nut into his drink, she'd have believed the rest of her life that he married her because of that.
So not quite the setting - I don't think it's in conversation - but the same concept.
So not quite the setting - I don't think it's in conversation - but the same concept.
4tesslouise
Thank you both! I love L. M. Montgomery and The Perilous Gard but in this case I think the latter suggestion must be correct. I've only read The Perilous Gard 01645713604570435 times, I don't know why I didn't know that's what I was thinking of. Thank you!
