“The kind of love that offers its life so easily, so stupidly, is always the love that is not returned.”

“He was in love, and never had he felt such kindness towards another person.”

“In this life we love who we love. There were some stories in which facts were very nearly irrelevant.”

“If someone loves you for what you can do then it's flattering, but why do you love them? If someone loves you for who you are then they have to know you, which means you have to know them.”

“It's easier to love a woman when you can't understand a word she's saying.”

“...writing stories was always a bit like falling in love with a stranger and running off to Marrakech for a long weekend. It didn't have to be successful to be thrilling.”

“You don't find strangers declaring themselves to you awkward?' But then she wouldn't, would she? People must fall in love with her hourly. She must keep a staff of translators to interpret the proposals of love and marriage.'It's easier to love a woman when you can't understand a word she's saying,' Roxane said.”