"O serpent heart hid with a flowering face!Did ever a dragon keep so fair a cave?Beautiful tyrant, feind angelical, dove feather raven, wolvish-ravening lamb! Despised substance of devinest show, just ..."
- William Shakespeare
"Surely it was a good way to die, in the place of someone else, someone I loved."
- Stephenie Meyer
"He was my North, my South, my East and West,My working week and my Sunday rest,My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong."
- W.H. Auden
"Every widow wakes one morning, perhaps after years of pure and unwavering grieving, to realize she slept a good night's sleep, and will be able to eat breakfast, and doesn't hear her husband's ghost a..."
- Jonathan Safran Foer
"Sweets to the sweet."
"What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life--to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in al..."
- George Eliot
"It's not reasonable to love people who are only going to die," she said.Nash thought about that for a moment, stroking Small's neck with great deliberation, as if the fate of the Dells depended on tha..."
- Kristin Cashore
"People die, I think, but your relationship with them doesn't. It continues and is ever-changing."
- Jandy Nelson
"The whole image is that eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions God's infinite love. That's the message we're brought up with, isn't it? Believe or die! Thank you, forgiving Lord, for all those ..."
- Bill Hicks
"How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury?"
- Jodi Picoult