We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.

I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every read more

I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.

If we discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone read more

If we discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. read more

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

What we can do for another is the test of powers; what we can suffer is the test of love.

What we can do for another is the test of powers; what we can suffer is the test of love.

Love can cure heartbreaks, misfortune, or tragedy. It is the eternal companion.

Love can cure heartbreaks, misfortune, or tragedy. It is the eternal companion.

The eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for read more

The eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.

True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.

True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.

It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.

It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.