“Probably every lover imagines that his own love is pure, and that others love like beasts.”
“Every man loves two women;the one is the creation of his imagination and the other is not yet born”
“Lovers never surrender to each other, lovers simply surrender to love.”
“The man was utterly devoid of compassion, love, kindness, or any other trait that marked the spoor of humanity, and so confident in his own superiority that his disdain for every other human being preceded his arrival like the rain-cooled downdrafts before a big storm.”
“But, like anyone in love, Madeleine believed that her own relationship was different from every other relationship, immune from typical problems.”
“In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.”