“That's how love got lost ... when we started laying down rules for when love should or shouldn't appear.”

“That it really began in the days when the Love Laws were made. The laws that lay down who should be loved, and how.And how much.”

“They all broke the rules. They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved and how. And how much. The laws that make grandmothers grandmothers, uncles uncles, mothers mothers, cousins cousins, jam jam, and jelly jelly. It was a time when uncles became fathers, mothers lovers, and cousins died and had funerals. It was a time when the unthinkable became thinkable and the impossible really happened.”

“The moment you're loved, that's when you got your soul.”

“It is that we are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object or its love.”

“Infatuation's just another word for not seeing clearly. When you start to love a person- that's when they become real”