“It is very difficult to love people who are good to us: it is easier to imagine we are loving people we can condescend to.”

“. . . it's not just the people we love, but the people we let love us back who show us how high we can really soar.”

“We fall in love or stay in love with people who are unsuitable or who no longer love us and, conversely, we feel no love towards people who would be very suitable. Love is involuntary, that's the problem. Our personal histories prepare us to be attracted to people who unconsciously evoke emotions from our childhood or adolescence.”

“We love people not because for good they did for us, but for good we did for them.”

“We have to allow ourselves to be loved by the people who really love us, the people who really matter. Too much of the time, we are blinded by our own pursuits of people to love us, people that don't even matter, while all that time we waste and the people who do love us have to stand on the sidewalk and watch us beg in the streets! It's time to put an end to this. It's time for us to let ourselves be loved.”

“…I think,' concluded Anne, hitting on a very vital truth, 'that we always love best the people who need us.”