“There's a kind of holiness to love, requited or not, and those people who don't receive it with gratitude are arrogant beyond saving.”

“People in love feel that way all the time, like they don't know what they've done to deserve each other.”

“Everything turned on the word "we", a synonym for love, the thing that saves us all.”

“We were friends. It was as big a deal as being in love.” She tried to think of a way to make Amelie understand. “It was a revelation, being friends like that. God, it was holy to me. But it wasn’t being in love.”

“Honestly, William, time?' his mother had snapped. 'Distance? Those things have nothing whatsoever to do with love. Who knows that better than you?”

“All those films in which the woman doesn't get her man, those films of yearning unsatisfied, hearts unappeased. You like them; I've liked them too. But I'll tell you what: try belonging body and soul to a man who will never belong to you; see how well you like those films then. "Don't ask for the moon-we have the stars!" ... "Pardon me saying so, but fuck the fucking stars!”

“I don't think love is blind, but wanting to be in love, that's probably blind.”