“When you truly love someone, you cant just be their friend.”

“Its hard to care for a person when you know that one more step forward will make you fall in love and one step back ruins your friendship.”

“We used to be best friends but the first time I saw you, my heart beats fast like my happiness can never be surpassed. I dont know why but if I lost you promise I will always cry.”

“Our hearts dont always align with the visions we have for our lives; emotions arent always vessels of simple manipulation and, try as we might, we cannot make passionate love exist where it does not.”

“When you truly love someone, you can’t just be their friend.”

“Our hearts don’t always align with the visions we have for our lives; emotions aren’t always vessels of simple manipulation and, try as we might, we cannot make passionate love exist where it does ...”

“When I say it's you I like, I'm talking about that part of you that knows that life is far more than anything you can ever see or hear or touch. That deep part of you that allows you to stand for t...”

“You know Balbec so well - do you have friends in the area?'I have friends wherever there are companies of trees, wounded but not vanquished, which huddle together with touching obstinacy to implore...”

“Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying youre friends is easy. Being friends is not.”

“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...”

“It is according to how we are able to answer the question of what we do (normally the first enquiry we will have to field in any new acquaintance) that the quality of our reception is likely to be ...”

“...status, as in any traditional, class-conscious society, declines more slowly than wealth.”

“Where wealth and status are concerned, shit isnt supposed to be hard. Ivies are known for grade inflationthough there is a lot of work, the reward for a mediocre job at completing it is still usual...”