love

"How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty with love false or true; But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face."

"I skimmed the pond scum with a spoon like broth in a soup bowl. Why does everything have to remind me of her?"

"Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality."

"The sun's gone dim, and the moon's gone black. For I loved him, and he didn't love back."

"You can never be wise and be in love at the same time."

"If music be the food of love, play on."

"Fight for the only thing she knew was good enough, noble enough, powerful enough to be worth risking everything... Love."

"Women want love to be a novel, men a short story."

"When you know my love, my love will warm you."

"I drank her essence, and it’s like she never existed and now I’m thirsty again. Let this be a lesson in love."

"Using a mannequin and some rope, could you ride two bicycles at once? Next time, try three bikes. Then truly love someone, because that’s even harder."

"Come live in my heart, and pay no rent."

"As the light begins to intensify, so does my misery, and I wonder how it is possible to hurt so much when nothing is wrong."

"I told her I'd wait forever for her, but that was before I found somebody else who'd give me a ride home."

"I loved you so much once. I did. More than anything in the whole wide world. Imagine that. What a laugh that is now. Can you believe it? We were so intimate once upon a time I can't believe it now. The memory of being that intimate with somebody. We were so intimate I could puke. I can't imagine ever being that intimate with somebody else. I haven't been."

"After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her."

"Why, when we know that there's no such thing as perfect, do most of us spend an incredible amount of time and energy trying to be everything to everyone? Is it that we really admire perfection? No - the truth is that we are actually drawn to people who are real and down-to-earth. We love authenticity and we know that life is messy and imperfect."

"I'm like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he's cold, and his clothes are torn, and he's ashamed, but he's not unhappy."

"It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love."

"Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human."