“Love should have no alternatives; love should be the sole reason for loving; love should spring of itself.”

“One should always be in love. That's the reason one should never marry.”

“All sins, except a sin against itself, Love should forgive. All lives, save loveless lives, true Love should pardon.”

“No one should be deprived of love without the very best of reasons. ”

“I should never have loved him . . I should never love anyone because it ends up being worse than being alone.”

“You asked for a loving God: you have one... The consuming fire Himself, the Love that made the worlds, persistent as the artist's love for his work and despotic as a man's love for a dog, provident and venerable as a father's love for a child, jealous, inexorable, exacting as love between the sexes. How this should be, I do not know: it passes reason to explain why any creatures, not to say creatures such as we, should have a value so prodigious in their Creator's eyes.”