“When you love, when you really love, fear becomes irrelevant.”

“When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.”

“When you start to really know someone, all his physical characteristics start to disappear. You begin to dwell in his energy, recognize the scent of his skin. You see only the essence of the person, not the shell. That's why you can't fall in love with beauty. You can lust after it, be infatuated by it, want to own it. You can love it with your eyes and body but not your heart. And that's why, when you really connect with a person's inner self, any physical imperfections disappear, become irrelevant.”

“When your fear touches someone’s pain, it becomes pity, when your love touches someone’s pain, it become compassion.”

“When you were in love you knew no fear or hatred.”

“If she’d ever had any doubts that she loved him, really loved him, she knew now. It was easy to love somebody when love was happy, but when it was hard, when it meant facing things you feared...that was different. He’d done it for her, many times. And now she had to do it for him.”