“And everything I thought I knew - you made me trade it all for you...but, frankly, you're not worth it.”

“How envious I am that the sun may kiss your porcelain skin and forever change how the world sees you.”

“There's no one to mourn for a life that love stole.”

“But when you kiss me there's a spark, and I can't remember I'm only food to be consumed like an apple and not loved like a woman.”

“I mostly hope you think I miss you and in the end you hope you'll get me, but that's fantasy, untrue as you, and bitter as the hope you left me.”

“It's better to have loved and lost than never love at all - I doubt that sorry statement every time I fall.”

“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that youve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you sa...”

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there i...”

“I'm an open book in a closed room.”

“tell meof something fiercer than the love with which i gaze upon youof something softer than the tendernesswith which i hold you.”

“To write you into poems,and make you unerasable.”

“The seeking of a mate shall be undertaken with due preparation and care. A life-bond should never be contemplated as a light thing--unlike a legal union or sanctified joining, the sealing of souls ...”

“I dont have cookie-cutter relationships, Rumi. Women arent iPhone apps that I download and discard!”

“In advising the heads of state to learn from tragedy rather than perpetuate its existence Robert Kennedy excalimed, "Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live." ...”