“i have a fatal attraction to your mismatched fragments & your meaningless tangents seem to mean the world to me.”

“Everything in her life, she could see now, had taken the same turn—as for love, she often puzzled and puzzled, without ever allowing herself to be fully sad, as to what could be wrong with the formula. It does not work, she thought. At times there were moments when she asked herself if she could have been in the wrong: she would almost rather think that. What she thought she regretted was her lack of guard, her wayward extravagance—but had she all the time been more guarded than she imagined, had she been deceitful, had she been seen through? For what had always happened she could still not account. There seemed to be some way she did not know of by which people managed to understand each other.”

“I wished to trust, and so I trusted. When events did not please me, my dreams reworked them.”

“Family is the foundation of life.”

“Don’t you see we’re all full of horrible power, working against each other however much we may love?”

“Bot even the truest of love can survive without respect. Not even self love.”

“Your jagged edges always surrender to the soft lines in the face of my poetry.”

“Love may not lead where we think or hope, but regardless of outcome it should be a call to seriousness and truth. If it is not that – if it is not moral in its effect – than love is no more than an exaggerated form of pleasure.”

“Part of love is preparing for death. You feel confirmed in your love when she dies. You got it right. This is part of it all.”

“A beautiful garden and a beautiful woman have much in common. They both bring peace and tranquillity to the man who is fortunate enough to possess them.”Rachel was silent. To be possessed by Jeronimo was a dream she could never aspire to, but she would remember his words for ever.”

“We are all potentially demons to each other, but some close relationships are saved from this fate.”

“The relationship you have with yourself will determine what your relationships with others will be like.”

“In the beginning, the lovemaking was frequent and wild, but with little genuine feeling, like good pornography. Our true intimacy was the unspoken belief that we were living honest lives without the artifice and deceit so necessary in most relationships.”

“Loyalty is a choice you make to respect your partner, to realise the value of efforts one makes for you..And that choice is easy to make when you love the person and understand how much the broken trust would hurt the person who loves you..”

“Can you imagine being in a place inside of yourself where you genuinely don’t need to be loved? It’s a very quiet place in which your love becomes open, broad, beautiful, and strong.”