“Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.”

“V-Day…if you need this one day in a year to show everyone else you truly care for “your loved one” I think it’s quite stupid. I hate this commercialism. It’s all artificial, and has nothing to do with real love.”

“Desiring another person is perhaps the most risky endeavor of all. As soon as you want somebody—really want him—it is as though you have taken a surgical needle and sutured your happiness to the skin of that person, so that any separation will now cause a lacerating injury.”

“There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.”

“I felt like an animal, and animals don’t know sin, do they?”

“She leaned forward and caught at his hand, pressing it between her own. The touch was like white fire through his veins. He could not feel her skin only the cloth of her gloves, and yet it did not matter. You kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire. He had wondered once why love was always phrased in terms of burning. The conflagration in his own veins, now, gave the answer.”

“Those sweet lips. My, oh my, I could kiss those lips all night long.Good things come to those who wait.”

“Oh no. Don’t smile. You’ll kill me. I stop breathing when you smile.”

“sex is the consolation you have when you can’t have love”

“When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.”