"I ask the impossible: love me forever.Love me when all desire is gone.Love me with the single mindedness of a monk.When the world in its entirety,and all that you hold sacred advise youagainst it: lov..."
- Ana Castillo
"Everything with me is either worship and passion or pity and understanding. I hate rarely, though when I hate, I hate murderously. For example now, I hate the bank and everything connected with it. I ..."
- Anaïs Nin
"Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul..."
- Marguerite Yourcenar
"Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened."
- Anatole France
"But grief makes a monster out of us sometimes . . . and sometimes you say and do things to the people you love that you can't forgive yourself for."
- Melina Marchetta
"Last night I wept. I wept because the process by which I have become woman was painful. I wept because I was no longer a child with a child's blind faith. I wept because my eyes were opened to reality..."
"I don't want to hurt you or anybody so please forget about me. Just try. Find yourself a better friend."
- Nina LaCour
"In bed that night I invented a special drain that would be underneath every pillow in New York, and would connect to the reservoir. Whenever people cried themselves to sleep, the tears would all go to..."
- Jonathan Safran Foer
"If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: in love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are."
- Kristin Hannah
"To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt."
- Madonna