“When you're in love, you can handle almost anything as long as you can spend some time with your loved one.”

“You don't love me, Sebastian. You don't have any idea what love really is. You can't love anyone or anything until you love your own existence, first. Love can only grow out of a respect for your own life. When you love yourself, your own existence, then you love someone who can enhance your existence, share it with you, and make it more pleasurable. When you hate yourself and believe your existence is evil, then you can only hate, you can only experience the shell of love, that longing for something good, but you have nothing to base it in but hatred. You taint the very concept of love, Sebastian, with your corrupted longing for it. You want me only to justify your hatred, to be your partner in self-loathing.”

“You can love someone and not like spending time with them.”

“But more than anything, love yourself. No matter how muchothers love you, no matter how they would do anything for you, theremay be times when through no fault of yours, you might be the onlyperson you can rely on when you are faced with bearing the sins ofanother.”

“Fall in love for as long as you can with the one who sees you when you are invisible.”

“You can feel for almost everyone, but only one person can you love.”