“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”

“Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.”

“The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”

“What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”

“If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.”

“How beautiful you are! You are more beautiful in anger than in repose. I don't ask you for your love; give me yourself and your hatred; give me yourself and that pretty rage; give me yourself and that enchanting scorn; it will be enough for me.”

“I cannot help it; reason has nothing to do with it. I love her against reason — but who would as soon love me for my own sake, as she would love the beggar at the corner.”

“Come, let's be a comfortable couple and take care of each other. How glad we shall be that we have somebody we are fond of always to talk to and sit with.”

“Friendship? Yes, please.”

“Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces - and as it gets older and stronger, it will tear deeper - love her, love her, love her!”

“Family should not only consist of those we share blood with, but also those we would give blood for.”

“True love believes everything, and bears everything, and trusts everything.”

“I took her hand in mine, and we went out of the ruined place; and, as the morning mists had risen long ago when I first left the forge, so, the evening mists were rising now, and in all the broad expanse of tranquil light they showed to me, I saw no shadow of another parting from her.”

“Think, now and then, that there is a man who would give his life to keep a life you love beside you.”

“There lives at least one being who can never change — one being who would be content to devote his whole existence to your happiness, who lives but in your eyes, who breathes but in your smiles, who bears the heavy burden of life itself only for you.”

“And, in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.”

“Love, though said to be afflicted with blindness, is a vigilant watchman.”

“Home is a name, a word; it is a strong one — stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.”

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”

“You know what I am going to say. I love you. What other men may mean when they use that expression, I cannot tell; what I mean is, that I am under the influence of some tremendous attraction which I have resisted in vain, and which overmasters me.”

“There are hopes, the bloom of whose beauty would be spoiled by the trammels of description; too lovely, too delicate, too sacred for words, they should only be known through the sympathy of hearts.”

“Whatsoever the failings on his part, remember, reader, he was that good in his heart.”

“There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.”

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”

“A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.”

“To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.”

“Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.”

“Declarations of love amuse me. Especially when unrequited.”

“I love you as certain dark things are loved, secretly, between the shadow and the soul.”

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible, isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and opens your heart, and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”

“There are chords in the human heart — strange, varying strings — that are only struck by accident; they will remain mute and senseless to the most passionate and earnest appeals, and respond at last to the slightest casual touch.”

“Love all, trust a few.”

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching, love like you'll never be hurt, sing like there's nobody listening, and live like it's heaven on earth.”

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”

“A loving heart is the truest wisdom.”

“Never close your lips to those you have already opened your heart to.”

“The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.”

“The only thing worse than a boy who hates you is a boy who loves you.”

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”

“Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?”

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”

“I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.”

“The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day.”

“Love is in all things a most wonderful teacher.”

“A heart well worth winning, and well won. A heart that, once won, goes through fire and water for the winner, and never changes, and is never daunted.”

“We must love one another or die.”

“Many merry Christmases, many happy New Years. Unbroken friendships, great accumulations of cheerful recollections and affections on earth, and heaven for us all.”

“If one loves, one need not have an ideology of love.”

“The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.”

“Understanding comes about through feeling, from moment to moment in the mirror of relationship.”