Quotes
Some men are great enough that they can love a whole woman, and not just part of her.
You're the only one that I would be glad to be close to forever, because all your secrets are bright and good and I love you for them.
I don't mind dying before you do. In fact, I rather prefer it that way.
Don't lie to me! Don't seem so normal when I know you have cut yourself off from me in your heart! If you can put on our affectionate closeness like a mask, then I'll never be able to take joy in it again.
Doesn't love show its face when it satisfies the need of the loved one, for the loved one's sake alone?
Show him who I am, so he will pity me instead of fearing me. And then we can turn pity into compassion, and compassion into understanding, and understanding into affection, and affection into love, and love into life, the life of our children, the life of the new self we will become together.
Permanence was always an illusion, and love was just the disguise that lovers wore to hide the death of their union from each other for a while.
This is what love is, he thought. Doing what you don't want to do, because she needs it so much. And it isn't that bad. And it isn't that hard.
Where there is great love there are always miracles.
"In great misfortunes," he told himself, "people want to be alone. They have a right to be. And the misfortunes that occur within one are the greatest. Surely the saddest thing in the world is falling out of love — if once one has ever fallen in."
Falling out, for him, seemed to mean falling out of all domestic and social relations, out of his place in the human family, indeed.
People can be lovers and enemies at the same time, you know. We were... A man and woman draw apart from that long embrace, and see what they have done to each other... In age we lose everything; even the power to love.
Ain't it wonderful, Jim, how much people can mean to each other?
