each of us, at our core, longs to be loved, needed, understood, affirmed—to have intimate connections that leave us feeling more alive and human.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring.

It takes great courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it. And even more courage to see it in the one you love

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture the only common basis possible is the lowest level.

I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live nor the smallest instinct about when to die.

True friends stab you in the front

The world seemed to me fine because you were in it, and goodness more real because you lived.

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.

It is quite true that I have worshipped you with far more romance of feeling than a man usually gives to a friend. Somehow, I had never loved a woman. I suppose I never had time. Perhaps, as Harry says, a really grande passion is the privilege of those who have nothing to do, and that is the use of the idle classes in a country

I will do what I promised. He whispered. No matter what. I will not send you into the darkness alone.

You either stick or you quit. And I wouldnt quit you I dont care what you done.

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.