Why is there ever this perverse cruelty in humankind, that makes us hurt most those we love best?

Love as thou wilt

Comme ils sont dans l'erreur ceux qui voient en Elua un dieu bien délicat, fait uniquement pour être adoré par les amants aux yeux tournés vers les étoiles. Mais que les guerriers clament donc leur foi dans des dieux de sang et de tonnerre ; l'amour est dur, plus dur que l'acier - et trois fois plus cruel. Il est inexorable comme la marée, et la vie et la mort marchent sur ses brisées.

I wondered if, by the time we'd been together as long as Phèdre and Joscelin, I'd be able to predict her reactions. I wasn't sure I would.I wasn't sure I wanted to, either.

Truly, it is in loss that we learn a thing's true value.

Oh love and hate are two sides of the same blade

I had Joscelin, my Perfect Companion, the compass by which I fixed my heart. No one could ask more.

As gloriously, splendidly, intractably single-minded as he was, loving him was like grasping a knife, a clean white blaze of pain that kept me anchored to myself.

After you, it's all cheap tequila.