Barfield understood his epochal experience are not as a rebound from love sickness, but as a spiritual epiphany that cured a spiritual illness.

— Philip Zaleski

Break free from the binding robes of passion that feels like a lump in your heart, perform that surgery today, and you'll be set free forever.

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Butterflies. Every day.

— Crystal Woods

Carol was like a secret spreading through her.

— Highsmith

Chasing after a guy who’s not interested in you will rip the hell out of your self-respect. Better to face facts now because the longer you put it off, the harder it’ll be.

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Compassionate love may be strong. It sobs, it burns, then it wipes away its tears – and it does nothing.

— Alexander Herzen

Curse him for being all tight muscle, with ivory skin and a mouth as soft as rose petals. Curse him for having hair as fair as the sun, and eyes as black as night. Curse him for having the grace of a cat and deft, cool hands. And now I am having the same argument on paper that I have in my own head on too many nights. I know my choice is sensible, but it isn't my common sense I think with, those times Rostov's stolen a kiss from me.

— Tamora Pierce

Dear Dick, I guess it's been a case of infatuation... Mostly this infatuation-energy is about wanting to know someone.... Whereas the sex-infatuations that's male *you, Shake, the priest) leap out of nowhere, based on not knowing them at all. As if sex could provide the missing clues. Can it? In the cases of the males it's like I felt some kind of hint of whom that person was floating under the surface. Wanting sex to realize things I knew.

— Chris Kraus

Dear Dick, I'm not sure if I still want to fuck you. At least, not in the same way. Severe keeps talking about us disturbing your "fragility", but I'm not sure that I agree. There's nothing so remarkable in one more woman adoring you. It's a "problem" you're confronting all the time. I'm just a particularly annoying one, one who refuses to behave... And yet I feel this tenderness towards you, after all we've been through.

— Chris Kraus

Distance gives a clearer view. You can't see the facade of a building while staying inside.

— Michael Bassey Johnson