"There were two classes of persons upon whom a duty of virtually absolute confidentiality rested: doctors and lovers."

"It's a different sort of love taht puts up with illness. Old love."

"That, said Isabel, is the most painful feature of lost love. you wonder what the other person is doing. Right at this moment. What is he/she doing?"

"When you are with somebody you love the smallest, smallest things can be so important, so amusing because love transforms the world, everything. And was that what had happened?"

"Sometimes she thought that the people overseas had no room in their heart for Africa, because nobody had ever told them that African people were just the same as they were"

"The point about love, the essential point, was that we loved what we loved. We did not choose. We just loved."

"You have to leave your heart to get on with it. It's rather like breathing. We don't have to remind ourselves to breathe."

"There is plenty of work for love to do."

"But don't we often lie to people we love, or not tell them things, precisely because we love them?"

"That of all people, it should be him; that took her aback. That the heart should settle on somebody like him; that surprised her. But she was so certain about it, so certain."

"Love in a night shall live and die, Love in a day shall wing and fly; Love in the Spring shall last an hour, Easily fade a spring-tide flower."

"Stab your demoniac smile to my brain, Soak me in cognac, love, and cocaine"

"This is the Night wherein I'm lost, the Love through which I am no longer"

"This complaining rambling rubbish is the substitute which has taken the place of love."

"For I am divided for love's sake, for the chance of union."

"The most delicious sensation of all is the re-birth of healthy human love. Spring coming back to Earth!"

"Love is the law, love under will."

"Love cannot save you from your own fate."

"Be loving and the love in your life will increase."

"Is what I am saying loving, compassionate, kind, empowering, or insightful?"

"Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb."

"No man loves life like him that's growing old"

"None love the messenger who brings bad news."

"No man loves the bearer of bad tidings."