“Love is not the demand of another, nor is it the need of another. It is all-embracing acceptance, is it not?”

“It's one thing to listen only to yourself and believe in the superiority of your ideas. It's quite another to look down upon those who don't share them.”

“There is something there. Not desire, not romance, but acquiescence. She understands; she forgives. this is love, he thinks with a settling sigh. This is love. The duration is of no consequence We love to know we are known. We ache to know it.”

“..and the peaceful feeling that helps him realize that whatever you see around you, whatever holds and loves you, is who you truly are.”

“Love and lust are as different from each other as red wine and blue cheese, but because they can also complement one another splendidly, they get conflated with amazing, dumbfounding regularity.”

“It's one thing to know a truth in your head but another to understand it in your heart.”

“The earth will spin, the stars will rearrange themselves around one another and the world will crawl with the dead who one day will drop into nothingness: no humans left for them to scent, no flesh for them to crave. Everything- all of us will simply cease to be. They'll find peace only when we're all dead.”