“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...”

“You lose a wallet or keys or something and you notice in a second, but your life can go missing and you don't even know it.”

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

“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.”

“You have no choice. You must leave your ego on the doorstep before you enter love.”

“Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion.”

“As Venus within Eros does not really aim at pleasure, so Eros does not aim at happiness. We may think he does, but when he is brought to the test it proves otherwise... For it is the very mark of E...”

“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...”