"His hands are holding my cheeks, and he pulls back just to look me in the eye and his chest is heaving and he says, "I think," he says, "my heart is going to explode," and I wish, more than ever, that I knew how to capture moments like these and revisit them forever. Because this.This is everything."

"It was the pure Language of the World. It required no explanation, just as the universe needs none as it travels through endless time. What the boy felt at that moment was that he was in the presence of the only woman in his life, and that, with no need for words, she recognized the same thing. He was more certain of it than of anything in the world. He had been told by his parents and grandparents that he must fall in love and really know a person before becoming committed. But maybe people who felt that way had never learned the universal language. Because, when you know that language, it's easy to understand that someone in the world awaits you, whether it's in the middle of the desert or in some great city. And when two such people encounter each other, and their eyes meet, the past and the future become unimportant. There is only that moment, and the incredible certainty that everything under the sun has been written by one hand only. It is the hand that evokes love, and creates a twin soul for every person in the world. Without such love, one's dreams would have no meaning."

"I am no longer in love with her, that's certain, but maybe I love her. Love is so short, forgetting is so long."

"If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: in love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are."

"Did you think you could stop me? I'll burn the world down to save her."

"I love you" I say."I love you, too" he says. "I'll see you soon."

"Love is not a maybe thing, you know when you love someone."

"So I placed my heart under lock and key To take some time, and take care of me But I turn around and you're standing here"

"When people fall in love, they burst into flames."

"Neither love nor evil conquers all, but evil cheats more."

"The way you walk, way you talk, way you say my name; it's beautiful, wonderful, don't you ever change."

"Missing someone, they say, is self-centered.I self-center you more than ever."

"I don't care if you danced naked on the roof of the Little Palace with him. I love you, Alina, even the part of you that loved him."

"Living with him is like being told a perpetual story: his mind is the biggest, most imaginative I have ever met. I could live in its growing countries forever."

"One should always be in love. That's the reason one should never marry."

"Oh Jake," Brett said, "We could have had such a damned good time together."Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. He raised his baton. The car slowed suddenly, pressing Brett against me.Yes," I said. "Isn't it pretty to think so?"

"He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing."

"Dare to love yourselfas if you were a rainbowwith gold at both ends."

"Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it."

"Would you destroy Something perfect in order to make it beautiful?"

"In bed that night I invented a special drain that would be underneath every pillow in New York, and would connect to the reservoir. Whenever people cried themselves to sleep, the tears would all go to the same place, and in the morning the weatherman could report if the water level of the Reservoir of Tears had gone up or down, and you could know if New York is in heavy boots."

"I drive around the streetsan inch away from weeping,ashamed of my sentimentality andpossible love."