“The love of literature, of language, of the mystery of the mind and heart showing themselves in the minute, strange, and unexpected combinations of letters and words, in the blackest and coldest print--the love which he had hidden as if it were illicit and dangerous, he began to display, tentatively…”— John Edward Williams, amazon.com
“McKenzie: 'Hey, maybe you should write a book.' Tom: 'What?' McKenzie: 'Well, you know, Henry Miller said the best way to get over a woman is to turn her into literature.' Tom: 'That guy had a lot more sex than me.'”— Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Geoffrey Arend, Tom, McKenzie, amazon.com
“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”— J.K Rowling, amazon.com
“And when one of them meets with his other half, the actual half of himself, whether he be a lover of youth or a lover of another sort, the pair are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy.”— Plato, amazon.com
“I want you to have your own thoughts and ideas and feelings, even when I hold you in my arms.”— E. M. Forster, amazon.com
“You are my sympathy—my better self—my good angel—I am bound to you with a strong attachment. I think you good, gifted, lovely: a fervent, a solemn passion is conceived in my heart; it leans to you, draws you to my center and spring of life, wrap my existence about you—and, kindling in pure, powerful…”— Charlotte Brontà, amazon.com
“When you love something, it loves you back in whatever way it has to love.”— John Knowles, amazon.com
“Do I love you? My god, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.”— William Goldman,, amazon.com
“I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”— Charles Dickens, amazon.com
“Literature grants us few of the consolations and none of the vatic promises of religion, but is our religion nonetheless.”— Joyce Carol Oates, narrativemagazine.com
“Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”— Nicole Krauss, amazon.com