“Love doesn't demand perfection, but it does ask you to give yourself with less reserve than you'd prefer.”

“Because being in love does not give you any excuse to be less than honorable, LadyTremaine.”

“The summer demands and takes away too much. /But night, the reserved, the reticent, gives more than it takes”

“How beautiful you are! You are more beautiful in anger than in repose. I don't ask you for your love; give me yourself and your hatred; give me yourself and that pretty rage; give me yourself and that enchanting scorn; it will be enough for me.”

“Does he love me? Does he love anyone more than me? Does he love me more than I love him? Perhaps all the questions we ask of love, to measure, test, probe, and save it, have the additional effect of cutting it short. Perhaps the reason we are unable to love is that we yearn to be loved, that is, we demand something (love) from our partner instead of delivering ourselves up to him demand-free and asking for nothing but his company.”

“You shouldn't ask questions when you know at heart you'd prefer not to hear the answers.”