“Because that is when you love somebody―when you see them being game in the face of the worst. Not courageous. Not heroic. Just game.”— Philip Roth, amazon.com
“I used to think that loving somebody meant sacrificing anything for them. I thought it meant writing them a blank cheque. I thought it meant that you would die without each other. But it turns out that death and a broken heart are not the same. These days, I think that love is not so dramatic as all…”— Leila Sales, amazon.com
“I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair. Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets. Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps. I hunger for your sleek laugh, your hands the color of a savage harvest, hunger for the pale stones of your f…”— Pablo Neruda, amazon.com
“...those are the two things you want to do most when you love somebody: to save them (sometimes from themselves) and to be near them always.”— Francois Lelord, amazon.com