“Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the one that you love doesn't love you.”

“Oh, you can't describe someone you're in love with!”

“Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you--gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of--and I can! I'm determined to do it--and nothing's more determined than a cat on a tin roof--is there?”

“The name of a person you love is more than language.”

“As for me, no one will ever love me. But you could get used to me, couldn't you, Jimmy?”

“In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.”

“These are the intensities that one cannot live with, that he has to outgrow if he wants to survive. But who can help grieving for them? If the blood vessels could hold them, how much better to keep those early loves with us?”