“It wasn't that I wanted to know her now. I wanted to have already known her. I wanted her fears and her desires to have shaped my life. I know this is not love, of course. What it is is a queer fee...”

“A pure love is a selfless love, but can desire ever be selfless?”

“I loved her for what I couldn't understand about her. Love searches for the mystery in the beloved, seeks the unknowable.”

“Every act of loving affirms the goodness of the lover just because he is capable of loving and being loved.”

“Love is always a surprise and you never get it right.”

“She knows what it's like to love someone who cannot love you back. Someone who needs you, holds you, yes, but someone who will never know that love is the knife in your heart.”

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”

“If I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drowned, why, in the name of the seven mad gods who rule the sea, was I allowed to come thus far and contemplate sand and t...”

“I'm an Earth ecstatic, and my creed is simple: All life is sacred, life loves life, and we are capable of improving our behavior toward one another. As basic as that is, for me it's also tonic and ...”

“When you lose everything, you are free. You become a receiver.”

“Only a person who has lost somebody can understand the pain.”

“But I still feel like I lost.We all have the potential to fall in love a thousand times in our lifetime. It's easy. The first girl I ever loved was someone I knew in the sixth grade. Her name was M...”