Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.
The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.
The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it...
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
Tonight I can write the saddest lines I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.
As if you were on fire from within. The moon lives in the lining of your skin.
I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books
When I am with you, we stay up all night. When you're not here, I can't go to sleep. Praise God for those two insomnias! And the difference between them.
I guess that's just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.