“Love commingled with hate is more powerful than love. Or hate. ”

“Because I am in love. Love is a slow bleed.”

“She wasn't in love but she would love him, if that would save her.”

“Betrayal is the deepest wound. Betrayal is what remains of love, when love has gone.”

“How mysterious it is, to be in love. For you can be in love with one who knows nothing of you. Perhpas our greatest happinesses spring from such longings-being in love with one who is oblivious of you.”

“Yet I will make you all love me and I will punish myself to spite your love.”

“But he doesn't love her. I invented that. It is a plot if you imagine people in love--the lazy looping criss crosses of love, blows, stares, tears. No. It doesn't happen. No love. People meet, touch, stare into one another's faces, shake their heads clear, move on, forget. It doesn't happen.”