“When we meet someone and fall in love, we have a sense that the whole universe is on our side. And yet if something goes wrong, there is nothing left! How is it possible for the beauty that was the...”

“The strongest love is the love that can demonstrate its fragility.”

“Ive met a man and fallen in love with him. I allowed myself to fall in love for one simple reason: Im not expecting anything to come of it. I know that, in three months time, Ill be far away and he...”

“What made you fall in love with a prostitute?I didnt understand it myself at the time. But Ive thought about it since, and I think it was because, knowing that your body would never be mine alone, ...”

“I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.”

“The only thing she could do now was to shed a few tears, feeling rather afraid of herself, an intelligent young woman, who had everything going for her, but who tended to make the wrong decisions. ...”

“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...”

“Sex can be used either for self-affirmation or for self-transcendence either to intensify the ego and consolidate the social persona by some kind of conspicuous embarkation and heroic conquest, or...”

“He didn't know all that much about how the machinery worked anyway. Such knowledge was for specialists. In war, as in love, he was a fearless, happy-go-lucky adventurer.”

“If she did experience sex--or something close to it--in high school, I'm sure it would have been less out of sexual desire or love than literary curiosity.”