“But some day sooner or later our passion would have cooled — inevitably — it's the way with everything human.”— Gustave Flaubert, amazon.com
“Stay away from the ones you love too much. Those are the ones who will kill you.”— Donna Tartt, amazon.com
“Why does the mind do such things? Turn on us, rend us, dig the claws in. If you get hungry enough, they say, you start eating your own heart. Maybe it’s much the same.”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.com
“In the whole entire world, you are the only person, the only person I love or have ever loved. And I love you terribly. Terribly. That’s what’s so awfully, irreducibly real. I can make up anything but I can’t dream that away.”— Tony Kushner, amazon.com
“Sometimes I think the loneliness inside of me is going to explode through my skin and sometimes I’m not sure if crying or screaming or laughing through the hysteria will solve anything at all. Sometimes I’m so desperate to touch, to be touched, to feel, that I’m almost certain I’m going to fall off…”— Tahereh Mafi, amazon.com
“I think you can love a person too much. You put someone up on a pedestal, and all of a sudden, from that perspective, you notice what’s wrong - a hair out of place, a run in a stocking, a broken bone. You spend all your time and energy making it right, and all the while, you are falling apart yourse…”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com