“I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”— Charles Dickens, amazon.com
“When you love something it loves you back in whatever way it has to love.”— John Knowles, amazon.com
“If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“Like the schoolyard bully, our criminal justice system harasses people on small pretexts but is exposed as a coward before murder.”— Jill Leovy, amazon.com
“You were at the age where you could fall in love with a girl over an expression, over a gesture.”— Junot Dìaz, amazon.com
“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com
“Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.”— C.S Lewis, amazon.com
“We all walk in a cloud of mourning for the New York that just disappeared.”— Stephanie Danler, amazon.com
“It was strange the way he loved her; a side long and almost casual love, as if loving her were simply a matter of course, too natural to mention.”— Chad Harbach, amazon.com
“There's a fine line between thinking about somebody and thinking about not thinking about somebody, but I have the patience and the self-control to walk that line for hours - days, if I have to.”— Jennifer Egan, amazon.com
“She held herself very straight, like Audrey Hepburn, whom all women idolize and men never think about.”— Jeffrey Eugenides, amazon.com
“Daily, our eating turns nature into culture, transforming the body of the world into our bodies and minds.”— Michael Pollan, amazon.com