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Quote #7
"And you love Mr. Monday?" said Tristran, seizing on the only thing in all this he was certain he had understood. (10.79)
By the time Tristran returns to Wall and has his heart-to-heart with Victoria, he's beginning to understand that he's not in love with her anymore (if he ever was). What comes as a shocker, though, is that she's in love with and planning to marry Mr. Monday, assuming that everything with Tristran and that oath works out. It just goes to show, love knows no age.
Quote #8
His father answered him as honestly as he was able to during the long walk back to the farmhouse, telling his tale as if he were recounting a story that had happened a very long time ago, to someone else. A love story. (10.103)
Dunstan's current love with his wife Daisy must be really different than the brief and passionate love he felt for the faerie slave whose name and fate he never learned. But at least he got to experience it, right? As the saying goes, it is better to have loved and lost than never loved at all.
Quote #9
Tristran stared at her in honest puzzlement. "But I have no wish to be a lord of anywhere," he told her, "or of anything, except perhaps my lady's heart." And he took the star's hand in his, and he pressed it to his breast and smiled. (10.182)
Okay, so maybe Tristran hasn't completely left his romantic streak behind. But at least he found a more reasonable person to fixate it on (if the star counts as a person). It's not like he's pining away for someone who's totally unavailable, since the star has become his traveling companion and returns his affection.