16 quotes found
“On a ship that's made of paper, I would sail the seven seas. (Just to be with you.)”
“No pain could match the emptiness of separation, no agony rivaled the unreality of not being with her.”
“My first love was everything, all at once. The kind of love you fight for, the kind of boy you fight for.”
“All I wanted was what I'd already had. That exultation, that love. It was my one real home; I was a visitor everywhere else.”
“I wanted to tell you that the man who is your father, the man who gave you life, has found a woman who is in heaven when she's in his arms.”
“Love gives us a heightened consciousness through which to apprehend the world, but anger gives us a precise, detached perception of its own.”
“The only things I regret, and the only things I'll ever regret are things I didn't do. In the end, that's what we mourn. The paths we didn't take. The people we didn't touch.”
“It was a once in a lifetime thing. I hate to think it but I bet it's true. It's too bad for us that our once in a lifetime happened when were too young to handle it.”
“It was only vanity and discouragement that sometimes made me feel alone with my endless love, but now that I was taking one of the risks my heart had urged upon me I could also feel I was not alone...”
“I thought of my mother (...). Freud wrote that no man is secure in the love of his mother can ever be a failure. Well, I had been busy proving that theory wrong.”
“All of us have two minds, a private one, which is usually strange, I guess, and symbolic, and a public one, a social one. Most of us stream back and forth between those two minds, drifting around i...”
“He welcomes the chance to do fatherly things with the little girl, and those ten morning minutes with dear little four-year-old Ruby, with her deep soulful eyes, and the wondrous things she sees wi...”
“Like you and me," said Jade. "How we used to be.""What do you mean? Crazy?""Living on our own world. Believing what we felt was separate from everything else. We couldn't do anything except be toge...”
“I never felt so large and important as I did when being in love was everything. I saw you walking a foot above the earth and I remembered that was where I used to walk.”
“I dont want to say it, I truly dont, but if youve gone this far I suppose its obvious that what was ignited when I loved you continues to burn. But thats of small importance to you now, and thats h...”
“I don’t want to say it, I truly don’t, but if you’ve gone this far I suppose it’s obvious that what was ignited when I loved you continues to burn. But that’s of small importance to you now, and th...”
