“Surely it's better to love others, however messy and imperfect the involvement, than to allow one's capacity for love to harden.”
“I can promise that even having an imperfect one who loves you is better than having none at all.”
“But it's high school. It's not real love, or at least you can't be sure it's real love. Real love is messy and complicated and brutal. It's been tested. Zik and Michelle have never been tested by anything mroe than being separated by a couple of classes.”
“Messy love is better than none, I guess. I am no authority on sane living.”
“I believe that the measure of my soul is my capacity to love imperfect people.”
“...what nobody seems to understand is that love can only be one-sided, that no other love exists, that in any other form it is not love. If it involves less than total giving, it is not love. It is impotent; for the moment it is nothing.”