“Dear God, teach me to be careless.”

“I know love is dark work; you have to get your hands dirty. If you hold back, nothing interesting happens. At the same time, you have to find the right distance between people. Too close, and they ...”

“I can only think how good life on earth can be, at times. What grief two people can give to one another! And what pleasure!”

“My son, there may be a time when I explain these things to you, because there may be a time when I understand them.”

“I can only think how good life on earth can be, at times. What grief two people can give to one another! And what pleasure!”

“You don't stop loving someone just because you hate them.”

“I can only think how good life on earth can be, at times. What grief two people can give to one another! And what pleasure!”

“I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.”

“Hate the sin, love the sinner.”

“The opposite of love is not hate, its apathy, when you simply don't bother about that person!”

“The words I Love You kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second.”

“It wasn't a thing I had consciously missed, but having it now reminded me of the joy of it; that drowsy intimacy in which a man's body is accessible to you as your own, the strange shapes and textu...”

“his yellow eyes gazed at me possessively -- I wondered if he realized that the way he looked at me was far more intimate than copping a feel could ever be.”