“The only one who needs to love the person you are with is you.”

“There is only one person who needs to be convinced that you're a writer. That would be you.”

“Some say that you know real love when you realise the only person in the world who can console you is the one who has hurt you.”

“When you are in love, it means that the person you love is of great personal, selfish importance to you and to your life. If you were selfless, it would have to mean that you derive no personal pleasure or happiness from the company and the existence of the person you love, and that you are motivated only by self-sacrificial pity for that person's need of you. I don't have to point out to you that no one would be flattered by, nor would accept, a concept of that kind. Love is not self-sacrifice, but the most profound assertion of your own needs and values. It is for your own happiness that you need the person you love, and that is the greatest compliment, the greatest tribute you can pay to that person.”

“The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.”

“There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.”