“I’d rather not love anyone, he thought. I’d rather have fun. And fun, his good side said to him, you have no fun when you do not love.”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com
“I kept hearing that ‘better to have loved and lost’ bull[crap]. Another falsehood. Trust me, it is not better. Don’t show me paradise and then burn it down.”— Harlan Coben, amazon.com