Oh, poor baby, she said, mimicking his drawl.Whew. You're back. There was this other Susie here a minute ago, and she was really nice to me. She scared the shit out of me.She laughed. They locked her...

Of course one never knows about other people's loves, and I would certainly never know about James's.

To love you as I should, I must worship God as Creator. When I have learnt to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now. In so far as I learn to...

No people find each other more absurd than lovers

This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

In God there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give.

Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.

Love, Don Jaime, love," he went on after a moment of sad reflection. "That is the only thing that can make us happy and, paradoxically, it is also the thing that condemns us to our worst torments. To...

You made me confess the fears that I have. But I will tell you also what I do not fear. I do not fear to be alone or to be spurned for another or to leave whatever I have to leave. And I am not afraid...

His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether in life or revery, he had heard their...

She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love. Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but...

He wasn't a whole person any longer, but only half of something not yet made.

I want to take ye to bed. In my bed. And I mean to spend the rest of the day thinking what to do wit ye once I got ye there. So wee Archie can just go and play at marbles with his bollucks, aye?

You cannot compel love, he said finally, nor summon it at will. Still less, he added ruefully, can you dismiss it.

If I die, he whispered in the dark, dinna follow me. The bairns will need ye. Stay for them. I can wait.

It wasn't a thing I had consciously missed, but having it now reminded me of the joy of it; that drowsy intimacy in which a man's body is accessible to you as your own, the strange shapes and textures...

I do know it, my own. Let me tell ye in your sleep how much I love you. For there's no so much I can be saying to ye while ye wake, but the same poor words, again and again. While ye sleep in my arms,...

When I asked my da how ye knew which was the right woman, he told me when the time came, I'd have no doubt. And I didn't. When I woke in the dark under that tree on the road to Leoch, with you sitting...

There's a thing they've figured out about love. Scientifically. They've done studies to find out what keeps couples together. Do you know what it is? It isn't getting along. Isn't having money, or...

I don't want to ruin your life, Leonard said in a gentler tone.You're not ruining it.The drugs just slow the process down. But the end's inevitable. The question is, how to turn this thing off? He...

I love the way he smelled whenever his head dipped close to hear what I was saying-like the sun striking th cheek of a tomato, or soap drying in the hood of a car. I loved the way his hand felt on my...

You cannot hate someone until you know what it might be like to love them.

Whatever your father did was not this woman's fault. And if she made him happy, when I obviously didn't, then the last thing you should be doing is yelling at her.

Isn't that what true romance issupposed to be about? Finding the person who's your soul mate. Someone you dream about at night. Someone whose name is on your lips when you wake up in the morning.

Neither of us, it turns out, has been the only one who lost someone she loved.

This sort of obsessing would get him nowhere. He needed to move on, to get going, to look forward.

It turns out that there's something even harder than not being able to be with the person you love when you're happy: not being able to comfort her when she's sad.

What makes a treasure a treasure is how rare a find it is, when you need it themost.

You can believe, for example, that a dead-end job is a career. You can blame your ugliness for keeping people at bay, when in reality you're crippled by the thought of letting another person close...

How do you do it?Do what?All of it. You know. Go to class and practice. Make it through the day. Act like ... like none if it mattered.Jason swore beneath his breath and pulled the car over. Then he...