Why must duty require me to break my own heart?

You make every case for marriage but love.

In the darkest of nights, there is only one thing on your mind--should I be required to stand before the Almighty, will I find myself in His favor?

Spend sunny afternoons writing. Take weekends in the country. Dream. Drink good wine, eat fabulous cheese and great bread. Make the kind of love that destroys the bed.

Youth isn't all it's cracked up to be either.""Then you're doing it wrong.

Percival pinched his lips, sending his laugh to his eyes.

Do not open that door until I'm in my room. I may be old and losing my hair, but I still want to look nice for a handsome man.

She ate--so, so good--cocooned in the harmonic dissonance of a large family, where every sound was distinct yet blended.

She knows exactly what I like and what it does to me. She worships my body in its entirety and I allow it—I crave it.

What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!

I want to build as many worlds as possible - each a version of ours with a crack running through it - and not be anchored to any of them.

Peter Jackson's instincts are extraordinary, as is his stamina.

All the poems have wolves in them. All but one. The most beautiful one of all. She dances in a ring of fire and throws off the challenge with a shrug.

Do not lose your faith. A mighty fortress is our mathematics. Mathematics will rise to the challenge, as it always has.

It's only a little secret, but having a secret makes me feel better. Like a human being again.

The musician and the listener. If this is love between two strangers watching each other from afar, that rough, burning moment when you rush in and kiss is the show.

The joy of love is too short, and the sorrow thereof, and what cometh thereof, dureth over long.

I think that people feel they know what love means, it's probably one of the most used words in the world but has the most completely different definitions from one person to another.