Quotes
Love was the genes of all creatures demanding that they be replicated, replicated, replicated.
She wants what everybody wants — to be loved and cared for, to be part of something beautiful and fine, to have the respect of those she admires.
She might be protective and possessive with her children whom she thought of as needing her, but with the people she needed, she was the opposite. If she feared they would be taken from her, she withdrew from them; she stopped permitting herself to need them.
Religion is tied to the deepest feelings people have. The love that arises from that stewing pot is the sweetest and strongest, but the hate is the hottest, and the anger is the most violent.
Because everybody dies, you'll always feel cheated. But you're the cheat... You're the one who uses our love for you to try to control us.
I knew her so well that I loved her, or maybe I loved her so well that I knew her.
He loved her, as you can only love someone who is an echo of yourself at your time of deepest sorrow.
I carry the seeds of death with me and plant them wherever I linger long enough to love. My parents died so others could live; now I live, so others must die.
I think you can’t possibly know the truth about somebody unless you love them.
The blood of love welled up in my heart with a slow pain.
I love people. Everybody. I love them, I think, as a stamp collector loves his collection. Every story, every incident, every bit of conversation is raw material for me. My love's not impersonal yet not wholly subjective either. I would like to be everyone, a cripple, a dying man, a whore, and then come back to write about my thoughts, my emotions, as that person. But I am not omniscient. I have to live my life, and it is the only one I'll ever have. And you cannot regard your own life with objective curiosity all the time.
I must get back my soul from you; I am killing my flesh without it.
