It's amazing how close you are to your essential self as a kid, he thought, and how far from it you drift the more you strive to be loved.

The reality of love is better than its reputation

And yes, being lovesick is like being in mourning. Because you die, because your future dies and you with it...There is a hurting time. It lasts for so long. But it gets better. I know that now.

I don't know how many years it's been since I last slept with my husband. I was faithful, stupid and so awfully lonely that I'll gobble you up if you're nice to me. Or kill you because I can't bear it.

We cannot decide to love. We cannot compel anyone to love us. There's no secret recipe, only love itself. And we are at its mercy--there's nothing we can do.

What a hideous life he had chosen, how painful was the loneliness he endured because he didn't have the courage to trust someone again. To trust someone entirely because in love there is no other way.

We are loved if we love, another truth we always seem to forget. ...Loving requires so much courage and so little expectation.

Fear transforms your body like an inept sculptor does a perfect block of stone...It's just that you're chipped away at from within, and no one sees how many splinters and layers have been taken off you. You become ever thinner and more brittle inside, until eve the slightest emotion bowls you over. One hug, and you think you're going to shatter and be lost.

Ljubavne su gluposti najslađe. Ali i najviše plaćamo za njih – šaptom je rekao Cuneo te navukao pokrivač do brade. – Za male jednako kao i za velike.