His breath in my ear, he ran his tongue along the curved edge, sucking the fleshy lobe and my small diamond stud into his mouth, and my eyes drifted closed while I babbled a weak sound of longing.

Love is not the absence of logic but logic examined and recalculated heated and curved to fit inside the contours of the heart.

There are a million ways to lose someone you love.

When you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging.

What do you say when the feelings don't fit into words?

It was as though he didn't exist, and then suddenly, he was everywhere.

He laughed, and the sound reduced the pain of every sore place on my body to the dullest ache.

I never wanted you to get hurt, but i wanted to take you from him.

I've changed since I've known you. Not because you made me into someone else - but because you showed me a path I'd never paid attention to, and I chose to follow it.

I say I don't believe in love, but that's not really true - love is just the name of an emotion. It's like on steroids. It's lust with ethics.

sometimes, how a situation is perceived carries more weight than the reality of the matter.

One mustn't dream of one's future

A king who trusts no man is weak.

If you put into one room everyone who considered themselves a Nietzschean, there would be a bloodbath.

I'm not that beautiful, and I don't want to be a pop star.

So much of what determines our happiness, I believe, is who we choose as our intimates.

My god is a cheerful, pleasant, lively, and good-natured being.

Poets wish to profit or to please.

You begin always knowing nothing. You remain forever an amateur, a first timer.

You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.