“Don't think that your first love has to be your only love.”

“I'm not your only love, Gray," She insisted. "I'm just your first love.”

“The first is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours.”

“You don't love me, Sebastian. You don't have any idea what love really is. You can't love anyone or anything until you love your own existence, first. Love can only grow out of a respect for your own life. When you love yourself, your own existence, then you love someone who can enhance your existence, share it with you, and make it more pleasurable. When you hate yourself and believe your existence is evil, then you can only hate, you can only experience the shell of love, that longing for something good, but you have nothing to base it in but hatred. You taint the very concept of love, Sebastian, with your corrupted longing for it. You want me only to justify your hatred, to be your partner in self-loathing.”

“You can't love anyone or anything until you love your own existence first. Love can only grow out of a respect for your own life.”

“Mourning your first love is as important as meeting your first love. It's the whole cycle.”