“sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love”

“There is always something left to love.”

“He dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her love him he ended up falling in love with her. Petra Cotes, for her part, loved him more...”

“To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as he by the clicking of her heels on the paving stones, wh...”

“nothing in this world was more difficult than love.”

“No medicine cures what happiness cannot.”

“She said that everyone has some evil inside them, and the first step to loving anyone is to recognize the same evil inside ourselves,so we're able to forgive them.”

“I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.”

“The pause .... where wisdom has space to appear”